http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_he_me/teen_stds;_ylt=ApmUBR4UjPlB5BNCBRxWqTOs0NUE

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" CHICAGO - At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group. ADVERTISEMENT A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls — nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. About half of the girls acknowledged ever having sex; among them, the rate was 40 percent. While some teens define sex as only intercourse, other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some infections. For many, the numbers likely seem "overwhelming because you're talking about nearly half of the sexually experienced teens at any one time having evidence of an STD," said Dr. Margaret Blythe, an adolescent medicine specialist at Indiana University School of Medicine and head of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on adolescence. But the study highlights what many doctors who treat teens see every day, Blythe said. Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's division of STD prevention, said the results are the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls. He said the data, from 2003-04, likely reflect current rates of infection. "High STD rates among young women, particularly African-American young women, are clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk," Douglas said. The CDC's Dr. Kevin Fenton said given that STDs can cause infertility and cervical cancer in women, "screening, vaccination and other prevention strategies for sexually active women are among our highest public health priorities." The study by CDC researcher Dr. Sara Forhan is an analysis of nationally representative data on 838 girls who participated in a 2003-04 government health survey. Teens were tested for four infections: human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer and affected 18 percent of girls studied; chlamydia, which affected 4 percent; trichomoniasis, 2.5 percent; and herpes simplex virus, 2 percent. Blythe said the results are similar to previous studies examining rates of those diseases individually. The results were prepared for release Tuesday at a CDC conference in Chicago on preventing sexually transmitted diseases. HPV can cause genital warts but often has no symptoms. A vaccine targeting several HPV strains recently became available, but Douglas said it likely has not yet had much impact on HPV prevalence rates in teen girls. Chlamydia and trichomoniasis can be treated with antibiotics. The CDC recommends annual chlamydia screening for all sexually active women under age 25. It also recommends the three-dose HPV vaccine for girls aged 11-12 years, and catch-up shots for females aged 13 to 26. The American Academy of Pediatrics has similar recommendations. Douglas said screening tests are underused in part because many teens don't think they're at risk, but also, some doctors mistakenly think, '"Sexually transmitted diseases don't happen to the kinds of patients I see.'" Blythe said some doctors also are reluctant to discuss STDs with teen patients or offer screening because of confidentiality concerns, knowing parents would have to be told of the results. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports confidential teen screening, she said."

sucks to be a black chick

3/11/2008 11:43:26 AM

3/11/2008 11:44:30 AM

make it count

3/11/2008 11:45:28 AM

usually i see stuf like this on the onion

3/11/2008 11:46:17 AM

LOL

pedobear isn't so happy anymore

3/11/2008 11:46:18 AM

sometimes



its worth the disease



I've given and gotten a few in my day

3/11/2008 11:46:30 AM

I guess some STDs are not as bad as others?

3/11/2008 11:46:32 AM

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"LOL pedobear isn't so happy anymore"

that's pretty funny

3/11/2008 11:47:01 AM

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"I guess some STDs are not as bad as others? "

aids. bad.
hpv. ehhhh. gross but its not aids.
herpes. hope you don't like to ride bikes.

3/11/2008 11:48:42 AM

so that means 3 in 4 DON'T have an STD!!

3/11/2008 11:49:44 AM

^
optimist?

3/11/2008 11:50:47 AM

welp, there goes that desire ive developed to nail a freshman black chick

3/11/2008 11:52:05 AM

meh, just spray some lysol

3/11/2008 11:53:32 AM

motherfuckers ran out of soap in the bathroom today

had to wash my hands with lysol

3/11/2008 11:54:37 AM

hahahha

3/11/2008 11:54:41 AM

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"I've given and gotten a few in my day"

eww

3/11/2008 11:55:00 AM

i blame rap music

3/11/2008 11:55:39 AM

antiobiotics are kinda cool sf

3/11/2008 11:55:44 AM

i blame sex

3/11/2008 11:56:34 AM

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"The study by CDC researcher Dr. Sara Forhan is an analysis of nationally representative data on 838 girls who participated in a 2003-04 government health survey."

Anyone else see a little problem with this?

3/11/2008 11:59:21 AM

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"antiobiotics are kinda cool sf"

yeah, but I'm willing to bet that it's even better if you never stick your genitals into some infested fuckhole

that could very well have something more serious than one of the ones that could be cleared by antibiotics

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM. Reason : AIDS ain't cool, B]

3/11/2008 12:00:26 PM

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"LOL pedobear isn't so happy anymore""

haha, still fursha won

3/11/2008 12:01:02 PM

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"meh, just spray some lysol"

runner up

3/11/2008 12:02:22 PM

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"Anyone else see a little problem with this?"

Yeah, I'm sure some people lied. Conversely, I can't see that many people lying that they had more STDs than they actually did. So maybe it's actually worse?!

3/11/2008 12:05:27 PM

StillFuchsia questions it all

3/11/2008 12:07:02 PM

what's even more disturbing is some girls don't even know who burned them

meaning:

they were fucking multiple people....unprotected
and they probably spread that shit


this is why I decided to wait until marriage to lose my virginity

3/11/2008 12:09:06 PM

Me too...


So when did we set the date jeff ?

3/11/2008 12:12:20 PM

abstinence-only sex ed seems to be working

3/11/2008 12:14:23 PM

May 27^th

*bats eyelashes*

3/11/2008 12:15:07 PM

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"I guess some STDs are not as bad as others?"

Some can be cured

3/11/2008 12:15:55 PM

These are odds I can live with.

3/11/2008 12:17:07 PM

eww but a lot can just be controlled not cured. g-ross. sorry but no matter how much i love you if you have herpes i don't want herpes. my love does not run that deep

3/11/2008 12:17:42 PM

what is love?

baby don't hurt me

3/11/2008 12:18:29 PM

^^Your love only runs as deep as their wallet?

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM. Reason : ^]

3/11/2008 12:18:36 PM

no. because if that were true, i wouldn't care if i got an std as long as they paid for the treatment.

3/11/2008 12:19:57 PM

std free <--- right here

3/11/2008 12:21:49 PM

i find that humorous coming from a rat

3/11/2008 12:22:10 PM

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"abstinence-only sex ed seems to be working"

as well as "anti robbing and killing" campaigns nation wide

3/11/2008 12:23:10 PM

3/11/2008 12:23:38 PM

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"so that means 3 in 4 DON'T have an STD!! "

3/11/2008 12:23:40 PM

so is HPV something that only women have to worry about? I tried to look it up but it didn't tell me much, but every stat is only about women...and also says that it can clear itself up, so the part about 18% of them having that doesn't bother me too much..

3/11/2008 12:28:36 PM

I mean, if you're a guy, you should worry about it too...because you can spread it. you're still a carrier.

but I think it only effects women





hmmm, I wonder how wrong I am

3/11/2008 12:34:06 PM

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"so is HPV something that only women have to worry about?"

Nah, HPV can give you genital warts, male or female.

It's just that it can also cause cervical cancer in women, so they're a little more concerned about it.

http://www.cdc.gov/STD/hpv/STDFact-HPV-and-men.htm <--- specifically about men

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 12:39 PM. Reason : V ]

3/11/2008 12:37:05 PM

i'm just gonna go ahead and

http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm#common


hpv is the virus that causes genital warts. just a nifty fyi.

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 12:38 PM. Reason : damn you beat me!!! ]

3/11/2008 12:38:28 PM

I wonder if they counted pregnancy as an STD

3/11/2008 12:39:56 PM

SNAP

3/11/2008 12:42:57 PM

HPV is also suspected of being the culprit in some throat cancers, but mostly it just causes cervical cancer....

Tho I don't understand why that shit dont spread into a guys junk and cause cancer But then, has anyone discovered if there's a cause behind prostate cancer ?

3/11/2008 12:43:17 PM

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"abstinence-only sex ed seems to be working"

3/11/2008 12:43:42 PM

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"why that shit dont spread into a guys junk and cause cancer"

anal and penile cancer in men can be caused by certain kinds of HPV, it's just more rare than cervical cancer in women:

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"-Penile cancer is rare, especially in circumcised men. In the U.S., it affects about 1 in every 100,000 men. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimated that about 1,530 men would be diagnosed with penile cancer in the U.S. in 2006. -Anal cancer is also uncommon—especially in men with healthy immune systems. According to the ACS, about 1,900 men will be diagnosed with anal cancer in the U.S. in 2007. "

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 12:46 PM. Reason : .]

3/11/2008 12:45:15 PM

What is it, something like 70% of women have a strain of HPV by their mid 50s?


The problem with HPV is that there isn't currently a test out there for men, so a guy can't know if he has it unless he gives it to a woman.

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM. Reason : nope, 50% according to the CDC link]

3/11/2008 12:46:09 PM