SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION EPIDEMIC
RAVAGING THE U.S.
It’s near-impossible to make last-minute reservations at any establishment on Valentine’s Day, but here’s a venue that's all too overlooked: the clinic.
A new report says America is experiencing an epidemic of sexually transmitted infections.
According to a report just published by the US Centers for Disease Control, United States residents are in the midst of a dangerous STI epidemic of historic proportions.
So severe is the outbreak, in fact, that it’s more than just the health of Americans that’s at risk: it’s the nation’s economy.
An analysis of the latest CDC report reveals that the US health care system is tasked with dealing with around 20 million new cases of STIs annually, making America the leading nation in the industrial world in terms of sex infections, and creating what the study’s author tells NBC News is "an ongoing, severe, STI epidemic."
“STIs take a big health and economic toll on men and women in the United States, especially our youth,” CDC epidemiologist Catherine Lindsey Satterwhite tells the network.
But while diseases are obviously a worry for anyone that’s infected, the woes don’t stop just there.
The CDC reports that in just 2008, the US spent around $16 billion treating STIs, creating a “severe human and economic burden” on the United States.
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Reader's Comment:
"So much for circumcision preventing STI's = America with highest adult population circumcision rates in western world has STI epidemic!
You guyz have been had by your medical profession whose addicted to cutting babies and making money from it, Shame on you!!"
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