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posted by Snow on Thursday August 30 2018, @12:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the personal-Vietnam dept.

Rates of three STDs in US reach record high, CDC says

Rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have climbed for the fourth consecutive year in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday at the National STD Prevention Conference in Washington. Last year, nearly 2.3 million US cases of these sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed, according to preliminary data.
That's the highest number ever reported nationwide, breaking the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases, according to the CDC.

[...] In 2013, there were 1,752,285 total cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis diagnosed in the United States. That number grew to 1,811,850 in 2014; 1,945,746 in 2015; 2,094,682 in 2016; and 2,294,821 in 2017, according to the preliminary CDC data.

[...] The preliminary data suggest that more than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia were diagnosed in 2017, with about 45% -- 771,340 cases -- emerging among 15- to 24-year-old women and girls. Chlamydia, which remained the most common STD reported to the CDC, is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and easily transmitted during any form of sexual activity. If not treated, chlamydia can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease in women, which can cause permanent damage to the reproductive system. In men, the infection can spread to the tube that carries sperm from the testicles, causing pain and fever.

Related: Around 42% of American Adults Have HPV, Over 20% Have Cancer-Causing Form
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by ChrisMaple on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:30AM (14 children)

    by ChrisMaple (6964) on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:30AM (#728114)

    Nowhere in the article does it state where these diseases come from: unchecked immigration. Democrats don't want anyone to know that their program for increasing their voters is importing sickness.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:37AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:37AM (#728119)

    Hi latest incarnation of our resident troll, Chris Maple? You think being a fake Canadian will get you a pass?

    I guess you want to raise taxes to build more walls? Or do you have a better solution to immigration?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:44AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:44AM (#728124)

      "Hi latest incarnation of our resident troll, Chris Maple? You think being a fake Canadian will get you a pass?
      I guess you want to raise taxes to build more walls? Or do you have a better solution to immigration?"

      -
      -

      All illegal immigrants should be given a choice : 30 years in a labor camp, or a free one-way ticket back home.

      If you don't think that would solve it, then we can change it to 40 years in a labor camp.

      As for the problem of all the anchor babies, they can go the fuck back to Mexico too. And if you think illegals should be allowed to stay in the US, then YOU
      will go to the labor camp, or be executed by firing squad ( your choice ).

      Do you have any more STUPID questions about "solutions to immigration", smart boy ?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:05AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:05AM (#728141)

        Not for an ass like you, I wanted to see what Chris Maple would say. Hopefully you get the mental health treatment you so obviously need.

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:42AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:42AM (#728151)

          Hopefully YOU get terminal cancer.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Thursday August 30 2018, @12:28PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 30 2018, @12:28PM (#728240) Journal

        And if you think illegals should be allowed to stay in the US, then YOU will go to the labor camp, or be executed by firing squad ( your choice ).

        No word on nuking the places they came from to prevent more from coming? Obviously a gutless immigrant sympathizer! To the work camps/firing squad!

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:39AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:39AM (#728120)

    The U.S. government created AIDS. The least the world can do is bring it back into white pussies.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:54AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:54AM (#728133)

      AIDS was not created by the US government, you stupid sack of shit.
      .

      AIDS emerged as a result of Africans having sex with non-human partners, and it then made its way around the world due to the sick twisted sexual practices of faggots.
      .

      If we liquidate all the niggers and faggots, AIDS will disappear.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:16AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:16AM (#728145)

        I see Mr. Troll's attempt at a real account fell through real quick. What a marrooooon!

        Go away, no one likes you when you're angry and crazy.

        • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:44AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:44AM (#728152)

          I'm not angry or crazy.

          You have that nasty SJW habit of attacking a person when you disagree with what they say.

          Some day someone is going to stomp your fucking head on a curb when you mouth off to them.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by fakefuck39 on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:47AM (3 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:47AM (#728154)

    In a test of 20k off the boat immigrants from the east 1.8% were positive for ≥ 1 STI. Yes, this excludes wetbacks
    Chlamydia alone in the general population is at 2.5%.

    Looks like unchecked immigration lowers the STD rate. Off the boat immigrants don't go to college. It's the fat freshman-20 pot smoking frathouse retards, not the immigrants. So - your kids buddy.

    Also, it's the highschool kids fucking each other for crack in the back alley in poor neighborhoods. Now, I infer this of course. The statistic actually says african-americans, but I don't want to be politically incorrect and say niggers all got the drips.

    source: nih.gov
    Retard. Knowledge is power - get some. Its a 30 second google search away.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:06AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:06AM (#728157)

      1.8% had more than one, vs. a single one with 2.5

      Assume there are 2 diseases occurring randomly in the population.

      Look first at the boat immigrants. The chance of having both diseases is 1.8%, which is 0.018 probability. The chance of having disease X is thus the square root of 0.018, which is 0.1342 probability, or 13.42%.

      Going the other way, from Chlamydia at 2.5%, we take that 0.025 probability and square it. We get 0.000625 probability, which is 0.0625%.

      The boat immigrants are 5.4 times as likely to have a given disease, and 28.8 times as likely to have both diseases.

      • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:03AM (1 child)

        by jmorris (4844) on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:03AM (#728169)

        Yup, terrible math. It ASSumes an even distribution. But we know the sort of promiscuous sexual activity that usually leads to contracting an STD is not evenly distributed so if someone has one they are probably promiscuous and thus far more likely to have two or more.

        • (Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Sunday September 02 2018, @06:05AM

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday September 02 2018, @06:05AM (#729428)

          people who are not great at math know what "≥" - that's you and the retard you replied to. in a sample of 20k immigrants, 1.8% have at least one STD, which is less than the general population. hence it is not the immigrants causing the STD spike. What exactly is it that you do not understand here Sherlock?

          To be this stupid and be on a tech site.. Oh, I keep forgetting what site this is. The guy who runs it repeatedly keeps claiming he wins at life by not having a passport and having the luxury of fishing on a lake. I'm guessing you're in that same retard crowd.

  • (Score: 2) by crafoo on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:16AM

    by crafoo (6639) on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:16AM (#728161)

    The article doesn't mention it but the CDC publishes the stats.