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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So someone like myself who rarely gets any is way ahead of the game for the first time ever.
ReplyDeleteI hear that the highest rate of sexually transmitted disease (per capita) is in The Villages retirement community near Orlando.
ReplyDeleteI guess they think they don't need condoms because they can't get pregnant.
You go grandpa!