STDs in American reach a record high for the fourth year in a row, CDC reveals
- Nearly 2.3 million cases of the most common STDs were diagnosed in 2017
- Cases of chlamydia, gonorhea and syphilis increased by 10 percent since 2016
- Rates of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea have quadrupled since 2013, the CDC announced today
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.
