There’s a dramatic rise in sexually transmitted diseases in Washington state. Live with the campaign to get people tested and treated.A 25% jump is observed in Dallas County and the concern, the spread could actually get higher. The Dallas county clinics for STDs are finding the same troubling results as public clinics around the nation. A dramatic jump in std infections and we need to get in front of the increases because, in the last three years or four years, there has been a steady increase. Be it gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis, for Dallas County, 27,000 new infections were reported in infections reported data.
And the release 2017 data, by public health authorities here.
- 11000 cases – 15 to 24 years old with chlamydia
- 3400 cases with gonorrhea in same age groups
- 3 out of 4 STD infections where Diagnosed from Dallas’s minority groups (African Americans and Hispanics)
Dallas health workers are concerned a 25% hike in infections over the past year will only grow unless testing and treatment increases. Ganesh Shivaramiyer, from Dallas County Health & Human Services, quoted that ‘We as public health know that once you start the role for the increase, 20 can become 30 and 30 can become 40 and then you’ll double and triple them in the near future. We want to get ahead of this”. Getting ahead means getting people tested and getting treatment. Once they know that people are transmitting these particular infections to other folks, they can get treatment.
Public health authorities issuing warnings and urging people to get tested at the STD testing near you. Those billboards giving calls to the community around Dallas can be seen because of the concern of the rising numbers of STDs.
