AEGiS-UPI: "Alarming Increase in STDs in San Francisco"

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"Alarming Increase in STDs in San Francisco"

United Press International (10/01/98)

The San Francisco Department of Public Health has reported that the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the city increased last year from 1996 levels. The rise in STDs marks the first increase in years in the area. The report indicates that the rate of chlamydia rose 24 percent and the rate of early syphilis increased 73 percent in 1997. There was also an increase in the number of rectal gonorrhea cases among men; AIDS rates were not included in the report. Researchers note that an increase in unsafe sexual behavior and the use of easy urine tests to screen for STDs may be partly responsible for the elevated numbers.
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