STD rates among Americans aged 55 and older have skyrocketed since 2012, according to the CDC. Chlamydia, Hepatitis C, and syphilis were among the diseases listed.
Sexually transmitted disease rates have risen sharply in a certain age group – and which group it is may surprise you. The CDC's latest statistics on STDs in the U.S. show that chlamydia, Hepatitis C, and syphilis were among the diseases that have been infecting Americans aged 55 and older at an alarming rate. The statistics, which are as recent as 2022, show how STD rates have skyrocketed since 2000.
New York, Georgia, New Jersey and Illinois were also ranked among the highest HIV diagnoses in 2021 for the same age group. Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota and Vermont had a combined total of 12 cases among the 55+ crowd, and Wyoming had zero. In an interview with NBC News, Texas A&M professor Matthew Lee Smith claimed that STD cases in elderly people may be influenced by how they were taught about sex education in school.
Back in the '30s, the '40s, the '50s, traditional school wasn’t really doing sexual education very formally,' he explained. For more Health articles, visit www.foxnews.com/health.
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