STD

An Oklahoma couple is facing charges after they allegedly murdered a 17-year-old girl as “payback” for transmitting a sexually transmitted disease.

Sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Tuesday.

Despite increased awareness and medical advancement, young people in Pennsylvania and the United States at large are facing a massive resurgence of sexually-transmitted diseases.

A “cluster outbreak” has caused at least 125 people in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to contract sexually-transmitted diseases such as HIV and syphilis.

The California Department of Public Health has reported that the Golden State has seen a 40 percent increase in cases of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) since five years ago.

A court in Greenville, South Carolina, has handed down a 20-year sentence to a man convicted of raping a five-year-old girl and infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease, a report says.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning about travel to Cuba after authorities reported Zika on the communist island.

Brazilian scientists detected live Zika virus in human saliva and urine, which may indicate that a person in contact with these bodily fluids can contract the virus.

City high school students in San Francisco already have access to free condoms. Now, a proposal introduced to the school board would authorize condoms to be handed out to middle school students following a one-on-one information session with a school nurse or social worker.

Los Angeles County had the highest number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States in 2014, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Islamic State has begun shutting down gynecology clinics in its conquered Syrian capital of Raqqa, according to a report at Foreign Desk News.

Both Sweden and Norway have a problem with STDs, with Sweden deemed the STD capital of Europe and Norway right up there. RFSU, a Norwegian sex education charity, has attempted to spread a message to their citizens about the importance of protection — by hiring a man to dress in a penis costume to go around spraying unsuspecting bystanders with “confetti.”

The used condom an 8-year-old boy from Colorado found on his school playground may have infected him with any of many sexually transmitted diseases after the young boy mistook it for a balloon and placed his mouth on the object.