STDs Still Skyrocketing and Becoming Untreatable

September 14th, 2018

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continue to rise steeply in the U.S., and 2017 marked the fourth year in a row that this has been the case.

In fact, the number of STDs in the U.S. in 2017 surpassed the previous record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases, such that close to 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were diagnosed, the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.1

Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, noted that “we are sliding backward,” as cases of STDs in the U.S. were in decline until the 1970s, at which point the trend reversed.2 “It is evident the systems that identify, treat and ultimately prevent STDs are strained to near-breaking point,” he said.

It’s especially curious that STD rates are rising, as separate research suggests Americans are having less sex overall.4 A study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, published in November 2017, suggested American adults had sex about nine fewer times per year in the early 2010s compared to the late 1990s.

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