1 in 4 Teen Girls Has Sexual Disease

[katty]

more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VBB9D00&show_article=1

1 in 4 Teen Girls Has Sexual Disease

Mar 11 12:32 PM US/Eastern
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical
Risky Sex Returns Syphilis to Europe

CHICAGO (AP) - 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.
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.

[JackintheGreen]

1. Yikes!

Glad I stopped having sex with teen girls...about 16 years ago.

[sarcasmo]

2. Let me guess, this is from focus on the family.

[reformedrethug]

3. wrong

from the link in the OP:

" 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."

This just reinforces the idea that if nothing else kids need to learn how to prevent the spread of STD's either by the use of condoms or by not having sex.

[Breeze54]

7. " the data, from 2003-04 " ... Riiiiggghhhttt....

Sounds like 'Big Pharma' wants that Gardasil mandate money pretty bad!!

[Hannah Bell]

9. seems like it...

herd the critters to your pre-ordained solution...

[Breeze54]

11. MY "pre-ordained solution"? WTF?

:crazy:

[Hannah Bell]

14. not yours. "theirs." the doomsters who scare ppl w/ problems

so they can sell you on their solution.

a comment on the pattern, is all.

[Breeze54]

15. LOL...OK...yikes!

:rofl: You freaked me out! :rofl:

Well; that's what I was saying but maybe I misinterpreted the reply?! :P

:rofl:

[Hannah Bell]

17. yes, i was only agreeing. n/t

[think4yourself]

4. Scary, if true

[ensho]

21. it is true and worse then the report says

it is a sad thing for a generation of girls/women. many of the STDs prevents pregnancy too.

and ITS NO FUN HAVING A STD. your body is waging war against an invader, the STD.

[Breeze54]

5. They tested every girl in America? Wow!!!

And here I am having trouble getting dental insurance.

Test me!!! :rofl:

[lvx35]

6. Its mostly HPV

wasn't there a vaccine for that?

[Breeze54]

8. This is more BS from the GOP & Big Pharma greedy bastids.

:grr:

[alarimer]

22. More fucking idiocy from anti-science types here

That vaccine would have prevented many of these infections. and it will prevent many cases of cancer.

So fuck your ignorant drivel. I bet the next time you need medication of any kind, you will line right up for it. Hypocrite.

[XOKCowboy]

10. How's that "Abstinance Only" thing going?

I file this one under the same heading as the 1 in 5 believe the sun revolves around the earth. Let's keep putting religion before science and soon we'll be the dumbest country on earth.

[angstlessk]

13. well, maybe not the dumbest, but we WOULD be vying with Afghanistan for the honor

and they are mostly farmers!

[theboss]

12. And Cue the HPV debate in 3...2...1

And...we're off!

[PeaceNikki]

16. Um... how many teenage boys have "sexual disease"?

They're getting it somewhere, no?

[Xenotime]

18. Exactly. They never talk about that.

[seabeyond]

20. a point. son told me this and said people, not girl. so why this is

identifying only girl i dont know.

[seabeyond]

19. QUESTION. my 13 yr old son told me this last night. but didn't say girl, just people.

then we talked about using condom and he said it does not take care of all disease. he said gonorrhea could still be picked up without a condom. i was going ot look this up. is it true. it was an abstinence class. not about sex and being responsible. but sex and dont do it.

anyone know.

[I work for workers]

23. Condoms are not the be all/end all of STD prevention.

Not sure about gonorrhea, but there are plenty of STDs (herpes and warts for example) that a condom won't stop.

Still better off with one then without one though.

[seabeyond]

25. geez.... lol

thanks. glad for heads up. i was generation right as aids being made aware, had pretty much made it thru before, and herpes just started getting us to listen about this stuff. i really didnt have to educate myself on this stuff. guess i am going ot have to do some research.

as much as people make lite of it on this thread, i prefer my children to be able to be std free.

[I work for workers]

24. Considering that 80% of Americans have herpes

this really isn't that surprising. The stats are inflated by HPV strains that cause cancer but don't have obvious symptoms.

The herpes stat is for oral, not genital. The vast majority of people have it, but aren't really affected by it.