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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: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:55AM (2 children)
The wages of sin is death. Those old goat herders that wrote that knew what they were on about, they had probably seen a few cases of crotch rot.
Especially before modern antibiotics, a lot of those STDs were either fatal or seriously debilitating. And even now it makes little sense to expend tax money keeping most AIDs patients alive (rich people want to spend their own money, that is their right) and on top of that paying for PReP to avoid having them spread their plague instead of simply putting them into a leper colony type containment. For that matter, look at the cost of treating Hep C, $25-95K for an almost entirely preventable disease.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @05:36AM
My grandma, at about 80 years old, got hepatitis from the hospital. I believe it was a Kaiser hospital in San Francisco.
Normally, they wouldn't bother to treat an old person with it. She was otherwise fine though, and it was their fault, so they cured her.
Hospitals suck.
Generally though, you are right. Cuba did exactly as you suggest for many years. They had an HIV quarantine colony. I'm guessing it was gay paradise for the ones who weren't too sick to enjoy it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:59AM
"The wages of sin is death."
They certainly weren't referring to STDs when that was written. You're doing a very bad job at scripture interpretation.