Report: “Ongoing, severe epidemic” of STDs in the US
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued two new studies of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) today detailing what the lead author of one calls “an ongoing, severe, STI epidemic.”
The studies reveal new infection data, some of it available for the first time, for the eight most common STIs — chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B, HIV, and trichomoniasis. The studies, which estimate infection rates and medical costs related to STIs, were published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Both are startling. In 2008, there were 20 million new incidents of infection in the United States, and a prevalence (new infections plus ongoing infection) of 110 million, according to CDC estimates. (Because one person may have more than one infection, the 110 million figure does not mean 110 million people have a sexually transmitted disease.) As a result, the United States incurred estimated direct medical costs of nearly $16 billion.
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I guess all those freely available government condoms don’t work so good…
(Me, I blame Fluke.)
CPT. Charles on February 14, 2013 at 8:07 PM
Happy VD.
Paul-Cincy on February 14, 2013 at 8:07 PM
Hmmm if such costs are enough to involve the gubenmint in guns then it is about time they are in the bedroom.
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One day it will get there and the libs will rue the day of big gov.
CW on February 14, 2013 at 8:08 PM
Fluked.
Wethal on February 14, 2013 at 8:09 PM
Gee, it’s almost as if consequence-free promiscuity actually has consequences. Who have thought?
Mr. Prodigy on February 14, 2013 at 8:09 PM
Yeh they forgot a few facts. Most men hate condoms and condoms don’t protect against all STDs.
CW on February 14, 2013 at 8:10 PM
Direct result of you troglodyte reichwingers not letting sex ed begin in preschool.
tom daschle concerned on February 14, 2013 at 8:20 PM
Teen Pregnancy rates go down and STD rates go up. Back in the day girls got pregnant for 9 months and then did not continue to sleep around. Now they take a pause for a few weeks so Planned Parenthood can deal with that. Then back to fornicate with anything that moves.
Old and busted: punished with a baby
New Hotness : punished with a STD
tjexcite on February 14, 2013 at 8:25 PM
Free
birth controlpenicillin.petefrt on February 14, 2013 at 8:28 PM
LOL Are you for real? (Or are you being amusingly sarcastic?)
Othniel on February 14, 2013 at 8:30 PM
I blame Sarah Palin.
Walter Sobchak on February 14, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Fancy that; a side-effect of f*cking like monkeys in heat that Klanned Barrenhood can’t do anything about.
And does this mean handing ‘free’ condoms out to everyone and their sister down to pea-brained, hormone-addled middle school students is NOT the remarkable solution we’ve been led to believe? I’m shocked!
Funny thing about that…part of the way nature is designed could almost be seen as tailored to nullify man’s attempts at cure-alls to diseases that are almost exclusively spread by rampant promiscuity.
“Safe Sex” is a myth conjured up from the pits of hell, stoked by the contraceptive industry, and glorified by irresponsible children.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 8:35 PM
90% of this is because of OWS.
Bishop on February 14, 2013 at 8:41 PM
I wish. The rot goes way deeper than that.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 8:43 PM
Sandra Fluke and her pal Julia are not using enough “protection.”
onlineanalyst on February 14, 2013 at 8:50 PM
You know, I am repeatedly floored by just how many people there are out there who try to find something – ANYTHING – to blame, other than themselves, for their promiscuity, poor life choices, and self-centered manner of living.
Then again, I guess it goes back to the beginning. Genesis 3:12 – The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
Othniel on February 14, 2013 at 8:50 PM
Yup.
itsnotaboutme on February 14, 2013 at 8:55 PM
Irresponsible children who write scripts for TV & movie studios.
itsnotaboutme on February 14, 2013 at 8:57 PM
Close the thread. Done.
The Rogue Tomato on February 14, 2013 at 9:02 PM
This.
It’s no wonder the liberals bawl about “legislating morality” so much. They’re afraid of going back to the days when we actually put legal limits on what the immoral Communist-fandom could put on a screen.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 9:16 PM
Ultimately, I figure this is a consequence of the fact that the outgoing personality types that make people celebrities and politicians are also the personality types that have little self control and a tendency to worship sex.
Count to 10 on February 14, 2013 at 9:36 PM
I blame bush.
CorporatePiggy on February 14, 2013 at 10:03 PM
So bed hopping like a Clintoonedy has consequences?
Who woulda thunk it?
viking01 on February 14, 2013 at 10:14 PM
Narcissistic, impulsive, selfish, immoral people and culture. These are the consequences.
Paul-Cincy on February 14, 2013 at 10:15 PM
STD proliferation is progressivism. It is too bad the results aren’t more deleterious with regards to STDs.
tom daschle concerned on February 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Oh don’t worry, they’re going to start getting more deleterious. Emphasis on “delete”. The GRIDS (later renamed AIDS) pandemic apparently wasn’t enough to put us back on the straight and narrow, so God is going to let the next tsunami hit, and the recent development of drug-resistant clap is merely the tide suddenly going out.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM