Washington (AFP) – Sexually transmitted diseases surged to a record high in the United States last year, with more than two million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis nationwide, officials said Tuesday.
This was “the highest number ever,” said the annual Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report released today by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most of the new cases — 1.6 million in 2016 — involved chlamydia, a bacterial infection that affects both men and women.
Gonorrhea also increased among men and women last year, but the steepest rise was among men (22 percent), said the report.
Nationwide, gonorrhea cases reached 470,000, with a large share of new gonorrhea cases among men who have sex with men.
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These trends are “particularly alarming” because of the growing threat of gonorrhea becoming resistant to the last recommended treatment, according to the CDC report.
Syphilis cases numbered 28,000, a rate that increased nearly 18 percent from 2015 to 2016.
Most cases of syphilis occur among men — mainly gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
But women too saw a 36 percent increase in rates of syphilis.
There were more than 600 cases of syphilis among newborns — known as congenital syphilis — a 28 percent increase in a single year.
These syphilis cases led to “more than 40 deaths and severe health complications among newborns,” said the report.
“Every baby born with syphilis represents a tragic systems failure,” said Gail Bolan, director of CDC’s Division of STD Prevention.
“All it takes is a simple STD test and antibiotic treatment to prevent this enormous heartache and help assure a healthy start for the next generation of Americans.”
Experts say despite growing concerns about antibiotic resistance, these three STDs can all be cured with antibiotic treatment.
If left untreated, however, they can lead to infertility, life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth in infants, and increased risk for HIV transmission.
“Increases in STDs are a clear warning of a growing threat,” said Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.
“STDs are a persistent enemy, growing in number, and outpacing our ability to respond.”
Glad I’ve been married for 24 years and you can’t get STD from your left hand.
Deface the Currency,
Diogenes
Rosie Palm always satisfies!!!
Was it Eddie Murphy who said that one day, when you stick it in, the pussy is just gonna blow up!?
I think he was talking about AIDS ability to kill you at the time.
Actually he was saying, in response to presence of AIDS that kills people, what’s next?…..”when you stick it in….”
Banish morality from public behavior, condemn and attack it on every front, and this is one of the things you get as a result.
More to come, much more.
as a side note to your banish morality comment anon,my wife is a middle school teacher–
she has never tolerated kids not standing for the pledge-she won’t make them say it but they have to stand respectfully–
today an email went out to all the teachers in her school–no more forcing the kids to stand for the pledge–
The pledge of allegiance is not a moral issue.
But the requirements to accept and promote things like homosexuality, transgenderism, gender fluidity, promiscuity, abortion, and on and on are.
Most schools are requiring that of teachers now, even to the extent of teaching it as normal and desirable behavior.
This article is about one of the results.
“More to come, much more.”
I doubt it. I distinctly remember similar pearl-clutching during the AIDS scare in the 80’s.
Although that did remind me of a good joke from that era:
“Have you heard of the new cure for AIDS?”
“No, what is it called?”
“Tri-no-ass-at-all”
Are you paying no attention to the news lately?
There is far, far more going on than just the STD explosion.
And all of it can be directly connected to the breakdown of public morality.
Don’t dance around the fact that half of all black women are infected with herpes. It should be noted that a high infection rate among black women does not imply that black women are more promiscuous than anyone else. It might actually be the promiscuity of men that is the source of the problem (i.e. the good girl who loves bad boys and catches whatever the bad boys bring home while they’re out “being bad”).
Black males will fuck a knothole and if it’s got open, running sores, yeah so?
Your white girl “friends” aren’t race realists? Have a good time bud.
yeah
Lord find a woman that shares your life goals and dig it. Or get a dog or three. Either have worked pretty damn well for me.
I think you can catch sexual diseases from dogs as well as people.
You can find information on that at the CDC.
“Nationwide, gonorrhea cases reached 470,000, with a large share of new gonorrhea cases among men who have sex with men.
Bad news for both AntiFA and the Alt-Liters, I guess.
I got a bad case of Moby dick once in the Philippines.
Weedhopper
Is not getting any a disease? I know in Hawaii it’s called lackanookie. How about in Arizona?
Undocumented copulation?
are there any docs on tbp?
i keep having this burning and itching,and some sort of discharge-any ideas doc?
Hmmm. Well, I’m no doctor but I think if you quit sticking your pecker in the woodchipper that might be a good start…
Old figures calculated specifically pointed to the black race as an enourmous number of STD’s far above the 13.3% of the population that they represent . The cost of care alone for blacks infected were also off the charts
Glad I’m married and my wife feels the same way most days.
535 men and women in Congress, 1 president and 1 vice-president, 9 clowns in gowns, and at least another million or so parasites at all levels of the federal government FUCK all 327,000,000+ American citizens 24/7/365 so it is of little wonder sexually-transmitted diseases would be on the rise.
Stupid remark.
Yeah that one was reaching.
Interesting that 1.5% of the Russian population has the AIDS virus. That equates to around 2 million Russians with AIDS and that is not accounting for other STDs. The rest of Europe averages 0.4% of their population with AIDS.
I would say Russia is in worse shape than the US. (Note- Russia has less than half of our population)
70-95% of Intravenous drug users thought to be infected by HIV/AIDS in Russia. repression and denial of the problem has allowed it to spread. Not sure of the % of infection due to bum banditry though.
I’d be interested to know if this might be related to the surge in third-world refugees as they are known to carry a few more diseases than the typical American. Were there surges in TB or other infectious diseases that correlate over the same time?