Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reach 10-Year High [in UK]

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reach 10-Year High [in UK]

PA News (www.pressassociation.press.net) (12/15/00)
Frith, Maxine

New statistics show that the number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the United Kingdom is the highest it has been in a decade. According to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS), cases of genital chlamydia skyrocketed 76 percent between 1995 and 1999, while cases of gonorrhea increased by 55 percent, cases of syphilis rose 54 percent, and cases of genital warts increased 20 percent. Health officials noted that complacency about safe sex has resulted in high rates of infection among young women and homosexual and bisexual men. Calling the trend "worrying," Dr. Kevin Fenton of the PHLS said the data "suggests that changes in sexual behavior thought to be related to the extensive safer sex messages in the wake of the HIV epidemic have not been sustained."
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