Category: Infectious diseases
Infection Target
Condom Use
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Anchor lead: How do attitudes toward condoms impact on their use among teens? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sexually active teens don’t just need to prevent pregnancy, they also must avoid a host of increasingly common sexually transmitted infections, and that means …
Pandemic and STIs
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Anchor lead: How has the pandemic complicated rates of sexually transmitted infections among teens? Elizabeth Tracey reports While one-quarter of a nationally representative sample of teenagers said they were sexually active, fewer than one in ten said they used condoms …
Teens and Sex
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Anchor lead: A very low percentage of sexually active teens use protection, Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer than one in ten sexually active teenagers use recommended protection, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study finds. Maria Trent, head of adolescent …
More Transmission
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Anchor lead: Do we need to be concerned about more Sars-CoV2 transmission this fall in the Northern hemisphere? Elizabeth Tracey reports As the pandemic began in the much of the world this spring, cooler temperatures have emerged as one factor …
Cooling Temperatures
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Anchor lead: How important is outdoor temperature in the spread of Sars-CoV2? Elizabeth Tracey reports Factors associated with increased rates of transmission of Sars-CoV2 include increased population density, younger age of the population, and cooler outdoor temperatures. That’s according to …