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April 14, 2022 - 7:15am | By Kyle Cornell
(Atlanta, GA) -- The number of cases of some sexually transmitted diseases are hitting record highs.
The CDC says this is the seventh year in a row of rising STD rates. Gonorrhea is up 45-percent since 2016 and syphilis up 50-percent. The biggest jump is in congenital syphilis, which affects newborns who contract the disease from their mother.
More than two-thousand cases were reported just in 2020, but are up 235-percent in the past six years.
