{"id":63864,"date":"2017-09-27T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63864"},"modified":"2017-09-26T18:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:56:03","slug":"reuters-new-std-cases-in-u-s-set-record-high-in-2016-cdc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63864","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) New STD cases in U.S. set record high in 2016: CDC report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New U.S. cases of three common sexually transmitted diseases &#8211; chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis &#8211; reached more than 2 million in 2016, a new record, U.S. health officials said, prompting calls for more effective prevention efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the new diagnoses were cases of chlamydia, which comprised 1.6 million cases. But there were also nearly a half million (470,000) new gonorrhea cases and nearly 28,000 new cases of syphilis, according to an annual report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>All three sexually transmitted diseases can be cured with antibiotics, but if left undiagnosed, they can cause serious health problems, including infertility, life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth in infants, and increased risk for HIV transmission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-health-stds\/new-std-cases-in-u-s-set-record-high-in-2016-cdc-report-idUSKCN1C12KX\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New U.S. cases of three common sexually transmitted diseases &#8211; chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis &#8211; reached more than 2 million in 2016, a new record, U.S. health officials said, prompting calls for more effective prevention efforts. Most of the new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63864\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,104,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63865,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63864\/revisions\/63865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}