Sexually-transmitted diseases continued to surge in 2017, rounding out a four-year streak of increases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
In 2017, 2.29 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were diagnosed, surpassing the record set in 2016 by 10 percent.
The agency said that its preliminary data on last year's STDS 'shows steep sustained increases' in these three most common diseases.
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is of particular concern to the CDC, as samples that are difficult to treat with standard antibiotics have quadruped since 2013.