Gonorrhea.

Scholastic Choices | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

There's a sexually transmitted infection (STI) lurking out: there among teenagers, that you should know about. It's been around for years, but it's probably not the first disease you think about when someone mentions STIs. The name of this mysterious STI? Gonorrhea.

More than 300,000 Americans get gonorrhea each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A whopping 75 percent of those people are young -- between ages 15 and 29. The highest gonorrhea infection rate is in women ages 15 to 19 and men ages 20 to 24. "Gonorrhea is clearly a ...

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