A total of 1,422,976 new cases of Chlamydia trachomatis were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012, “the largest number of reported cases for any notifiable disease in the U.S.," a CDC spokeswoman told CNSNews.com.Let's spending more money on public education , it's working so well !
A list of the National Notifiable Infectious Conditions that are reported by 57 state and territorial jurisdictions can be found on CDC's website.
Approximately 110 million Americans – more than a third of the entire U.S. population - were infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) as of 2008, the latest date for which figures are available, the CDC spokeswoman confirmed. That includes more than a million Americans living with HIV.
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Chlamydia Sets U.S. Record For Most Cases of Reportable Disease
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