Life-Threatening STIs Are Spiking Across The Us, Per CDC Data: ‘Out Of Control’

[Sugar Cookie]

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, STIs are on a worrying rise putting millions of people’s lives at risk from entirely preventable infections.

“STIs must be a public health priority,” the CDC warned on Tuesday.

The health agency noted that “the most alarming concerns” revolve around syphilis cases — which are at the highest level they’ve been in more than seven decades.

Reported chlamydia cases have remained at a record high level but gonorrhea cases did decline for the first time in at least a decade.

Both syphilis and gonorrhea can be deadly if left untreated for too long.

“The CDC’s latest STI data shows that our nation is facing a rapidly deteriorating public health crisis with real lives at stake,” the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) warned in a statement on Tuesday.

The 2022 data — the most recent available — showed more than 2.5 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia were reported in the United States.

Late last year, Health and Human Services created the National Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Syndemic (NSCSS) Federal Task Force in a bid to help slow the spread of the disease, but the impact has not yet been recognized.

“People are using condoms less and less frequently,” Dr. Nima Majlesi, Director of Medical Toxicology at Staten Island University Hospital, told The Post, saying that public health messages have “de-emphasized” the importance of safe sex in recent years.

STI rates have risen sharply across the country since COVID lockdown restrictions were lifted.

However, the NCSD warned that the 2022 data does not reflect the impact of the shortage of Bicillin L-A (a congenital syphilis drug) which began last spring, or last summer’s STI workforce cuts due to the debt ceiling deal.

“The reality is that the 2023 data will be worse,” the NCSD stated.

Life-threatening STIs are spiking across the US, per CDC data: ‘Out of control’

Experts have warned that the alarming new data from 2022, released by the CDC on Tuesday, does not bode well for 2023.

nypost.com

 

[BuffettGirl]

Getting an STI would murder my soul... I got crabs once just from visiting someone's house for two hours (where all clothing remained ON thankyouverymuch, it was my friend trying to hook up with him, not me) and that about did in me. I was deeply mortified for months, maybe years afterwards...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Getting an STI would murder my soul... I got crabs once just from visiting someone's house for two hours (where all clothing remained ON thankyouverymuch, it was my friend trying to hook up with him, not me) and that about did in me. I was deeply mortified for months, maybe years afterwards...

If that is the story you want to go with

 

[BuffettGirl]

If that is the story you want to go with

Touché!

 

[Kitsune Faye]

If you want to whore around, use condoms!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Ella Mayo]

How about staying with one person? A scary new idear, for sure, tho' not as scary as herpes simplex ten:

Full disclosure:
I'm not a certified expert on human sexuality, but I play one on the Internets.

 

[Metalfan]

For Fs sake where did I put that Reynolds wrap!

 

[Rebooto]

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