Jennifer Booth Reed, News-Press.com,
March 12, 2008
One quarter of American teenage girls has at least one of four common sexually transmitted diseases, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Tuesday.
Researchers looked at the rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, chlamydia, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection and trichomoniasis in a first-of-its-kind study of STD prevalence among 14- to 19-year-olds.
