Sex diseases are on rise. Gonorrhea which was seen declining temporarily earlier is again on the rise and so are
chlamydia and
syphilis according to federal
health officials. Year 2006 recorded 1,030,911 clamydia cases as highest in any year, but taking into account widespread underreporting experts feel 2.8 million new cases annually as more accurate.
Gonorrhoea is second with an estimated figure of 358,366 cases in 2006, the centers estimate that at least twice that number actually occurred. Syphilis cases have also seen a rise to 9,756 cases in 2006, most cases have involved gay men, who account for about 65 percent of cases, and to a lesser extent women. Also, a small number of cases have occurred among newborns.
For all kinds of sexually transmitted diseases the acceptable figure per annum is 19 million new cases. Cases of genital herpes,
papillomavirus and trichomonas infections though much more prevalent and account for majority of cases are not required to be reported nationally.
A study into the pattern of occurrence of these diseases suggests a wide disparity in the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases among the African-American population in the country. According to Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., head of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention the ratio among black and white is 18 to 1 for gonorrhoea, syphilis 6 to 1 and Chlamydia 8 to 1. No reasons except perhaps lack of health care were attributed to this disparity. (New York Times, November 14, 2007). DNBhatnagar
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