Fun facts you never asked for!

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• 18% of Blacks tested at the clinic are newly HIV+, the highest of all sub-groups
• Chlamydia is the most common STD in the United States (sorry Canadians)
• Chlamydia can be transmitted by dry-humping.
• Syphilis is becoming an epidemic in the southern US, actually confined to zip codes
(demographic epidemic)
• The rash to the hands and feet in the second phase of Syphilis are very infectious
• Syphilis can have a latent period of up to 40 years
• Due to the long latency, geriatric women are commonly misdiagnosed with dementia when it is
in fact they are suffering with Neurosyphilis (years ago they got it or their "monogamous"
husbands got it and passed it to them)
• Herpes lies dormant, after initial infection, near the spinal cord and periodically migrate
back out to the surface of the skin.
• 20-30% of the sexually active population in the US have HPV (Human papilloma virus) aka
Genital Warts
• HPV can be transmitted via towels and clothing
• There are vaccines for both Hepatitis A and B
• It is recommended that gay men receive the HEP A and B vaccines
• It is unknown at this time whether HEP C can be transmitted sexually
• The slides in this class where kinda gross *giggle*