Sexual disease crisis looms
Just for comparison with the HIV and other STD's situation in Japan, the UK doesn't seem to do much better.
That's almost science-fiction :shock:
Just for comparison with the HIV and other STD's situation in Japan, the UK doesn't seem to do much better.
LONDON (Reuters) - The country is in the grip of a sexual health crisis with cases of diseases like syphilis and gonorrhoea soaring, says a parliamentary committee.
There are now more HIV patients in Britain than ever before, the Health Select Committee said in a report on Wednesday, but it is much "older" sexually transmitted diseases that have exploded in recent years.
The legislators said 10 percent of sexually active women are infected with chlamydia, syphilis rates have leapt by 500 percent in the last six years while incidences of gonorrhoea have doubled over the same period.
Rates of teenage pregnancy are the highest in Europe.
That's almost science-fiction :shock: