Black Girls and young black women have higher rates of both chlamydia, gonorrhea.

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/11/girls-and-young-wom
en-have-higher-rates-of-both-chlamydia-gonorrhea.html

Today, we get new data on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections
in the United States. And it appears that girls and young women age 15
to 19 -- especially African American girls and women -- are at
considerable risk; they have the highest number of cases of both
chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Increased screening may be responsible for some, but not all, of these
numbers, the report says. Among the highlights of the 2008 data from the
federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

-- Chlamydia: 1.2 million total cases reported; 342,875 in the
aforementioned age group. Women are more likely to be severely affected
in the long term, experts say, but men and women likely have similar
disease rates. Men just don't get tested as much.

-- Gonorrhea: 336,742 total cases reported, again with girls and young
women having the highest rates. Experts believe the true number is
almost twice this amount.

-- Syphilis: 13,500 total cases reported, most among men who have sex
with men.

What's needed, the report says, is better screening and treatment -- and
behavioral interventions (safe sex, among other things). And, it says,
we must do something about the racial disparities.

Here's the summary of the new data, with highlights. And here's the full
report: Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2008.

http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats08/surv2008-Complete.pdf

--
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
Rangel's tax evasion.

[Ubiquitous]

leroys...@usurper.org wrote:

>Today, we get new data on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections
>in the United States. And it appears that girls and young women age 15
>to 19 -- especially African American girls and women -- are at
>considerable risk; they have the highest number of cases of both
>chlamydia and gonorrhea.

And you posted this off-topic article here because?

--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.

[No Way losers]

that explains all the brain damaged niggers out there.