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Rates For Three Common STDs Reach Record High, CDC Says And STD rates are only rising.
STD rates have risen. Again. according to preliminary data released from Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of people contracting sexually transmitted diseases has increased for the fourth straight year.
In 2017 nearly 2.30 million cases of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis were diagnosed in America. This surpasses the 2016 figure by roughly 200,000 cases. Chlamydia is the most common STD, making up 1.7 million cases last year, but the rise in Gonorrhea is particularly concerning for men. CDC data reveals that Gonorrhea rates doubled in guys from 2016 to 2017.
please be clear that Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis are infections not disease, they are class as an STI , as in HIV is an STD..