Tuesday, March 11, 2008

1 in 4 American Teenage Girls Have An STD

Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls

The first national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, federal health officials reported Tuesday.Nearly half the African-Americans in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected with at least one of the diseases monitored in the study — human papillomavirus , chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis, a common parasite.

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