CDC Study Finds Many Teen Girls Have STDs

A CDC study estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States–or 3.2 million teenage girls–is infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis).

It is the first study to examine the combined national prevalence of common STDs among adolescent women in the United States, and provides the clearest picture to date of the overall STD burden in adolescent women.

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