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News: STDs on the Rise in the US: Report
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STDs on the Rise in the US: Report
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There were more cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported in the United States last year than ever before, according to new federal data. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis — three of the most common S.T.D.s — grew for the second consecutive year, with sharper increases in the West than other regions. And while all three diseases are treatable with antibiotics, most cases continue to go undiagnosed, potentially causing infertility and other problems.
The syphilis rate rose most sharply, by 19 percent. Public health officials are particularly worried about an increase in the number of babies whose mothers are passing it to them in utero, which can cause stillbirths and infant deaths. Progress in the fight against S.T.D.s has “unraveled,” according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Young people, members of racial minorities and men who have sex with other men are at most risk of getting an S.T.D.
Chlamydia rates are highest among 15-to 24-year-olds, who accounted for nearly two-thirds of diagnoses last year, and among blacks. While chlamydia disproportionately affects women, the rate of reported cases among men grew more sharply last year. Over all, the rate of reported cases grew by 5.9 percent.
Chlamydia is the most common of the S.T.D.s that have to be reported to the C.D.C., with more than 1.5 million cases last year.
Most of the new gonorrhea and syphilis cases were among gay men, although rates are climbing for women, too. Public health officials are worried that gonorrhea is becoming resistant to the some of the last antibiotics capable of treating it. Although gonorrhea rates are highest among blacks, they have jumped over the last few years among whites and other ethnic groups.
Syphilis rates increased among men and women in every region of the country. Most cases were among men who have sex with men. But the rate of syphilis diagnosis among women grew by 27 percent, and the rate of congenital syphilis, passed from pregnant women to their babies, by 6 percent.
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Public health officials point to a number of possible reasons, from budget cuts to what might be called the Tinder effect. Since the beginning of the economic downturn, more than half of state and local programs that provide testing and treatment for S.T.D.s have had budget cuts, according to the C.D.C. “Those are among the primary places where we actually diagnose and treat S.T.D.s as well as H.I.V.,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, the director of the agency’s National Center for H.I.V./AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, S.T.D. and TB Prevention.
Dr. Mermin also said that the rise of dating apps like Tinder could possibly be contributing to rising S.T.D. rates, and that some local health departments believed there was a connection. “But it’s not completely clear, the cause and effect, at this point,” he added.
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Over the past few years, the West has had bigger increases in S.T.D. rates than any other region of the country. The number of gonorrhea cases reported in Montana almost doubled last year, for example, to 844 from 434. In California, the number of reported syphilis cases grew by 28 percent, to 4,908 from 3,835.
But the South still has the highest overall rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea. Louisiana has the highest rates of gonorrhea (221 cases per 100,000 residents, compared with 124 nationally) and syphilis (15 cases per 100,000 residents, twice the national average). California and Louisiana had the most babies born with syphilis last year, about 40 percent of the total.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/us...e-on-rise.html
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I blame PrEp
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California and Louisiana had the most babies born with syphilis last year, about 40 percent of the total.
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This is truly every bit of a mess. Someone with more knowledge on this, when pregnant, do the doctors not check for STD's during check ups or you have to request it?
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Time to start wrapping it up gays 
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I blame Grindr.
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Young people, members of racial minorities and men who have sex with other men are at most risk of getting an S.T.D.
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when you're all 3
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Cupcakke ha impact 
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This is a mess tho 
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I blame crappy sex education
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Who doesn't have cancer or STD's these days
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I blame Grindr and Tinder. This is why I judge people who use them.
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Live fast, die young. Bad girls do it well.
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just use a condom people, yikes
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its true. ive had rectal chlamydia several times now after starting prep, but there's no way im going back to using rubbers. i'll take azithromycin once every couple months, i dont care. other stds are simply not scary to me, it is totally worth going raw for tbh. bareback is just... 
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its true. ive had rectal chlamydia several times now after starting prep, but there's no way im going back to using rubbers. i'll take azithromycin once every couple months, i dont care. other stds are simply not scary to me, it is totally worth going raw for tbh. bareback is just...
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California and Louisiana had the most babies born with syphilis last year, about 40 percent of the total.
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what the ****kkkkkkk
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Please use condoms y'all, prep is only for HIV and this week the second person ever was reported to have contracted HIV while on prep
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