Ebola, Schmebola: Here’s The Outbreak The Media Refuses To Report

Posted by | October 12, 2014 18:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Top Stories

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While ratings-driven cable “news” and conspiracy-obsessed Net nuts freak out over Ebola, there’s a bigger health problem confronting the public, according to LiveScience.com’s Bahar Gholipour:

Sexually transmitted diseases are one major group of diseases that make for ongoing hidden epidemics: In the United States alone, there are nearly 20 million cases of new sexually transmitted infections yearly, from just eight viruses and bacteria, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Perhaps 20 million new cases sounds like a high number. But because infections can persist for a long time, especially in people who aren’t aware they are infected, the number of existing infections at any given time is even higher, at 110 million, according to CDC researchers.

And most Americans are unaware of the most prevalent cooties:

The eight most common STDs in the U.S. are chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B virus (HBV), (genital) herpes, HIV, human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis and trichomoniasis. About 50.5 million of these current infections are in men, and 59.5 million are in women, according to the CDC’s 2013 report, in which the researchers looked at 2008 data.

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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

62 responses to Ebola, Schmebola: Here’s The Outbreak The Media Refuses To Report

  1. crc3 October 14th, 2014 at 19:02

    Should make anyone on the dating front (be they married or not married) think twice about having sex with a stranger. Oh wait…even those you think you know can have an STD. We’re all literally screwed….

  2. crc3 October 14th, 2014 at 19:02

    Should make anyone on the dating front (be they married or not married) think twice about having sex with a stranger. Oh wait…even those you think you know can have an STD. We’re all literally screwed….

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