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