Staggering Rise In STIs

For the past few years the Health Protection Agency, which monitors infectious diseases in Britain, has been warning about the staggering rise in Sexually Transmitted Infections among middle-aged men and women.
It’s latest figures show Chlamydia infections have increased by nine per cent in the past year, and by 138 per cent since 2001.
Genital herpes is up 15 per cent in the past year and 142 per cent in ten years, while gonorrhea is up eight per cent in one year and 14 per cent since 2001.
Cases of genital warts, caused by human papillomavirus, which is linked to a range of cancers, have risen by 62 per cent in the past ten years and by three per cent in the past year.
And the diseases themselves are becoming more ferocious.
Swedish scientists have announced the discovery of a strain of gonorrhea that has become resistant to antibiotics.
Of course, in numbers, infections among young adults and men who have sex with men are still far greater.
But STIs do not discriminate between 16 or 60-year-olds.