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“The CDC’s latest STI data shows that our nation is facing a rapidly deteriorating public health crisis with real lives at stake,” disease experts with the National Coalition of STD ...
The rates of three STDs — gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis — have reached an all-time high in the U.S., according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We’re talking sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), which are at an all-time high for the sixth consecutive year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said in a new report released Tuesday, day ...
A 2008 CDC study found that 25–40% of U.S. teenage girls has a sexually transmitted infection. [ 105 ] [ 106 ] Out of a population of almost 295,270,000 people [ 107 ] there were 110 million new and existing cases of eight sexually transmitted infections.
The Center for Prevention Services was formed in 1980 as one of the original five CDC centers, at the same time CDC's name changed from the singular "Center for Disease Control" to plural "Centers for Disease Control". [2] The Center for Prevention Services became the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention in 1996. [3]
[74] [75] According to the CDC African Americans are most affected by gonorrhea, accounting for 69% of all gonorrhea cases in 2010. [76] The World Health Organization warned in 2017 of the spread of untreatable strains of gonorrhea, following analysis of at least three cases in Japan, France and Spain, which survived all antibiotic treatment. [77]
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 ...
The CDC collects and publishes health information for travelers in a comprehensive book, CDC Health Information for International Travel, which is commonly known as the "yellow book." [ 79 ] The book is available online and in print as a new edition every other year and includes current travel health guidelines, vaccine recommendations, and ...