Estimates of the Incidence and Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States
Sexually Transmitted DiseasesPublished 1 April 1999
Willard Cates
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It is estimated that more than 15 million STD infections occurred in the United States in 1996, which exceeds the earlier estimate primarily because improved detection techniques have allowed an assessment of previously undiagnosed infections.
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Large numbers of new STDs continue to occur each year in the United States, with serious health and economic consequences. More than two thirds of our current estimate of 15 million STDs annually consists of two infections--trichomoniasis and human papillomavirus--for which we have only level III surveillance data. As the quality of our surveillance data improves, we can further refine the precision of our national estimates.
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