CONGRATULATIONS GEORGIA! It just might be a cold and lonely Valentine’s Day in the Peach State after the CDC says you’re one of “most sexually diseased” states – PB/TK
New study on STDs finds Georgia among ‘most diseased’ states – Fiza Pirani The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A new study using data from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and county health agencies and social media surveys, ranks Georgia among the top “most sexually diseased” states.
The report, created by BackgroundChecks.org and released just in time for Valentine’s Day, weighted the data from the CDC and agencies and factored in the surveys for the final ranking.
With a gonorrhea rate of 158.3 cases per 100,000 residents and a chlamydia rate of 570.8 per 100,000 people, Georgia came in at No. 7 of the 50 states.
The “most diseased” state, according to the report, is Alaska, with a rate of 151.1 and 768.3 per its 100,000 residents for gonorrhea and chlamydia respectively.
The “least diseased” according to the study was New Hampshire.
According to a CDC report last year, Georgia ranked fifth for rates of HIV diagnosis in 2015 with 28.3 infections per 100,000 residents.
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