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sexually transmitted disease
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sexually transmitted disease

Any disease transmitted by sexual contact, involving transfer of body fluids. STDs include not only traditional venereal disease, but also a growing list of conditions, such as AIDS and scabies, which are known to be spread primarily by sexual contact. Other diseases that are transmitted sexually include viral hepatitis. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 340 million new cases of curable STDs annually worldwide (1999).

An estimated 12 million people contract a sexually transmitted disease each year in the USA (1998).

US researchers estimated in 1999 that about 3.5 million US women were unaware that they had been at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases because they wrongly believed their partners were monogamous.



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Since the end of 2003, an ongoing lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) proctitis outbreak has been reported in industrialized countries, first in the Netherlands, followed by neighboring European countries and the United Kingdom, and now in the United States and Canada (1-4).
Slow epidemic of lymphogranuloma venereum L2b strain by Morre, Servaas A. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Unlike HIV-AIDS, this bacterial infection called lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is easily treatable with antibiotics.
STDs on the rise in Canada by Catholic Insight
Lymphogranuloma venereum causes genital ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, and inflammation of the rectum.
Rare virus scare by The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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