U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases
More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year — the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. “A new U.S. record,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More bad news: Gonorrhea rates are jumping [...]
Sexually abused children carrying STDs
Doctors are dealing with an horrific side affect of abuse – more children with sexually transmitted diseases. Instances of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, pelvic inflammatory disease and genital warts are all increasing and doctors blame child abuse. The children have contracted diseases as a result of sexual abuse, often at the hands of relations or care givers. [...]
Gonorrhea becoming resistant to antibiotics
Now this is scary! The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is becomingly increasingly resistant to antibiotics, leaving few treatments available for the nation’s second most common STD, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The resistance has prompted concern about future treatment of the disease and caused health officials to promote the use of a [...]