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sexually transmitted diseases

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  1. Diseases that can be passed to other persons through sexual contact. AIDS, gonorrhea, herpes, and syphilis are examples of sexually transmitted diseases.


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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022

U.S. officials are also reportedly considering broadening recommendations on who should get vaccinated against MPX to possibly include many men with HIV or those recently diagnosed with other sexually transmitted diseases, the Associated Press reported.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Right now, there is no coordinated national response, as there is for sexually transmitted diseases or COVID-19, to tick-borne disease in the U.S.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2022

Public health departments later delivered vaccines to halt diseases such as smallpox and polio, upgraded water systems to limit typhoid and cholera, curbed sexually transmitted diseases and helped guarantee the safety of food in restaurants.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

John Zenilman of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, an expert on sexually transmitted diseases, has another explanation: the breakdown of medical services in the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell