Sexually Transmitted Diseases Snowball

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

Reported Chlamydia Cases Setting Record

12:57 pm EST January 13, 2009

Sexually spread diseases - for years on the decline - are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government health officials said Tuesday.

The increase in chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to infertility in women, is likely because of better screening, experts said. In 2007, there were 1.1 million cases, the most ever reported, said officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Thousands of women become infertile each year because of untreated chlamydia and gonorrhea infections, said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention.

Syphilis cases, which number only in the thousands, also rose modestly, while the number of gonorrhea cases remained roughly the same. Syphilis can kill, if left untreated, but chlamydia and gonorrhea are not life-threatening.

Chlamydia can infect men as well as women, but rates are nearly three times higher for women. That's at least partly due to 1993 federal recommendations that emphasize testing for sexually active women age 25 and under. That emphasized screening in recent years is no doubt driving the record numbers, said Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, a professor of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.



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[ogneopasno]

1. Hee. This subject line looks like spam.

[damntexdem]

4. But how would you like to be hit by that snowball?

Chilling, huh? ;-)

[awoke_in_2003]

8. And to think...

that when I was young we only had to worry about the yellow snow.

[DS1]

2. That might be one technique, yes

[babylonsister]

3. So much for abstinence programs, huh. nt

[damntexdem]

5. Abstinence makes the hard go flounder.

But it doesn't stop the activity.

[Seldona]

9. Exactly what I was thinking.

A nation of kids who have no idea how to protect themselves. Teen pregnancy is up, STDs are up, when are these people going to learn?

[zbdent]

6. so that's how Snowball died

on the Simpsons ...

[Harry Monroe]

7. Hey Repubs, how's that "abstinance only" education going??

[Yavapai]

10. Ask Grandma Palin!