* The Southern Illinoisan…
Despite the popular stigma surrounding sexually transmitted diseases and infections, more than half of all people will experience one or the other at some point in their lives, according to the American Sexual Health Association. […]
From 2013 to 2014, 41 out of the 50 states experienced an overall increase in average STI morbidity rate (the death rate caused by STDs and STIs). Using the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HealthGrove, a health data site by Graphiq, found the states that had the largest increases in STI morbidity rates. After analyzing the relative increases for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis per 100K people, states were ranked by average percent increase in the morbidity rate of all three infections between 2013 and 2014 (the most recent reporting year).
* A few states on the list…
#1 - Utah
Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 29.69%
Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 283.47
Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 49.67
Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 356.99 […]
#11 - California
Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 9.36%
Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 459.94
Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 118.46
Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 29.85 […]
#24 - New York
Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 4.09%
Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 502.84
Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 105.63
Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 36.28 […]
#36 - Indiana
Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.98%
Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 434.02
Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 110.93
Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 7.23 […]
#39 - Illinois
Average percent increase in STI morbidity: 0.5%
Chlamydia rate per 100K people (2014): 516.5
Gonorrhea rate per 100K people (2014): 123.97
Syphillis rate per 100k people (2014): 21.7
- Blue dog dem - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 12:59 pm:
That Rauner fellow. He’s doing a heck of a job.
- A guy - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 1:02 pm:
Just Ew.
- Nate - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 1:13 pm:
I’m willing to bet that the CDC is using the term “morbidity” in the medical sense, meaning the incidence of an illness in a population, not the number of people that died. This must have been an oversight on the part of the author, who “oversees entertainment and lifestyle content” and has “never met a dance floor or bar of chocolate she hasn’t liked.”
Apparently the Southern Illinoisan also didn’t think it incredible that 180,000 Californians died from Chlamydia in 2014.
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 1:14 pm:
Clap.
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- Enemy of the State - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 1:28 pm:
“The sexual revolution is over and the microbes won.’ P. J. O’Rourke.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 1:29 pm:
“IPI blasts Madigan for the rise….”
- ??? - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 1:39 pm:
Nate, I agree. Deaths would be represented by mortality rates, not morbidity.
- @MisterJayEm - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
Hey Kids!! Get wise like Donald Duck and wear a pro!!!
– MrJM
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 3:38 pm:
Nate is correct. Used to review M & M figures in grad-level Stats classes. That was a long time ago….
- NoGifts - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 4:05 pm:
Didn’t the author get that little uneasy feeling when she typed the statement about people dying from sexually transmitted diseases. The one that says “gee, can that be right??? I should double check that.” Even dictionary.com morbidity entry says “the state of being sick” and nothing about dying.
- Iron Lady - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 5:04 pm:
Another reason no to be like Indiana.
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 8:13 pm:
Yeah, Nate, there’s clearly a lack of understanding of the difference between morbidity and mortality. I mean, wouldn’t you ask yourself, “Have I heard of ANYBODY dying of chlamydia? Ever?”
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Feb 22, 17 @ 8:21 pm:
@MisterJayEm, is the woman in that illustration supposed to be unconscious?
- Tollway Tommy - Thursday, Feb 23, 17 @ 7:36 am:
Interested to see how much of this is attributed to drug abuse - i.e. sharing needles, etc.