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Sexually Transmitted Disease

Record High Number Of STD Infections In U.S., As Prevention Funding Declines

Richard Harris

The U.S. has the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease cases in the industrialized world, say health trackers, with chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reaching 2.3 million cases in 2017.