From yesterday’s Sacramento Bee:
A rapidly increasing number of young Sacramento County residents are unknowingly spreading sexually transmitted diseases, often oblivious to their potentially devastating consequences.
The trend lines alone are startling: Sacramento County posts higher infection rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia than almost every other county in California, new state figures show.
Last year, the county reported 7,678 new chlamydia infections, almost twice as many as the entire state of Utah. Sacramento boasts the second highest rate in California, after Fresno County.
The county’s syphilis infection rate more than doubled from 2002 to 2006, and its gonorrhea rate increased 35 percent.
It’s a scary time to be single.
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