CDC: One In Four American Teenage Girls Has Sexually Transmitted Disease

Here’s some heartbreaking news from the Center for Disease Control (USA):

“A new CDC study estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States – or 3.2 million teenage girls – is infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis). The study, presented today at the 2008 National STD Prevention Conference, is the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common STDs among adolescent women in the United States, and provides the clearest picture to date of the overall STD burden in adolescent women.”
–Quoted from this article at sciencedaily.com.

This should serve as another warning to young Filipinos: don’t follow the liberated ways of the West! The consequences are devastating.

See also:

HPV: Three Potentially Deadly Letters

Manila’s Silent Epidemic

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5 thoughts on “CDC: One In Four American Teenage Girls Has Sexually Transmitted Disease”

  1. yeah..a simple mistake could ruin your whole life! for every rights we have our responsibility.
    its hard to be inflicted with std because some of these diseases are sometimes asyptomatic!

  2. ♥Ganun po ba kuya kevin”♥♥♥
    at early age ng pgsesex mgkkaroon ng posivility na mg ka roon ng sakit

  3. there are lot of youngsters now who just take sex for granted..it is a sacred action…or the gift of God for married couples.how will i help them?kuya

  4. 1. Teach them the biblical commandments.
    2. Encourage them to get my book.
    3. Consider doing a True Love Waits seminar.

    Those are a few ideas.

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