Some records are not those you want to be bragging about and this week's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of them.
More than 1 million reported cases of chlamydia. "A new U.S. record," said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Add in the news that gonorrhea rates are rising after hitting a record low because a number of the new cases are caused by an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" version and that syplilis cases are increasing and the news is not good.
The CDC report, released every year, puts chlamydia as the most common sexually transmitted disease with nearly 1,031,00 cases having been reported last year, an increase of 976,000 over the previous year. Last year broke the record of 1,013436 cases in 1978.
The complete story and statistics are located on Yahoo.
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