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Sexually transmitted infections are becoming more common in older adults. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in people ages 55 and up more than doubled in the U.S. over the 10-year period ...
In March, CDC data showed that chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis diagnoses in people over 55 had more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, with syphilis in particular increasing sevenfold. Similar ...
Story at a glance Sexually transmitted disease rates are rising among adults 55 years old and older, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cases of gonorrhea ...
Trichomoniasis is a common STI that is caused by infection with a protozoan parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis. [70] Trichomoniasis affects both women and men, but symptoms are more common in women. [71] Most patients are treated with an antibiotic called metronidazole, which is very effective. [72]
Chlamydia is known as the "silent epidemic", as at least 70% of genital C. trachomatis infections in women (and 50% in men) are asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis, [15] and can linger for months or years before being discovered.
More than 60% of cases are in men who have sex with men. [19] It occurs most commonly in those between 15 and 40 years of age. [20] In the United States, rates of syphilis as of 2007 were six times greater in men than women while they were nearly equal in 1997. [21] Rates are also greater in African Americans and Hispanics than in Caucasians. [21]
State and local health departments across the U.S found out in June they’d be losing the final two years of a $1 billion investment to strengthen the ranks of people who track and try to prevent ...
In the United Kingdom, 196 per 100,000 males 20 to 24 years old and 133 per 100,000 females 16 to 19 years old were diagnosed in 2005. [19] In 2013, the CDC estimated that more than 820,000 people in the United States get a new gonorrheal infection each year. Fewer than half of these infections are reported to CDC.