Are You At High Risk Of Contracting An STD?
Are you a high risk for contracting and STD? If you fit the bill you may be. Some people are higher risk for getting std’s. It’s not because of their immune system or their genes, it’s because of their occupations, geography and even social habits.
MSN Men’s Health and Fitness writer Rcih Mallof put together this great article at MSN. Here is a short except and click on the link at the bottom to read the whole article.
“By fact or fiction, by stats or by stigma, a handful of groups within our population have been linked to elevated STD risk. Some assumptions feed the fallacy that only certain “types” of people acquire sexually transmitted diseases, when the plain fact is that nearly everyone who has sexual relations is vulnerable.
However, official statistics and figures culled by researchers do reveal groups that are disproportionately affected. Who are they? Are the high rates explained by factors beyond their control, and is the health care system somehow failing these people? Moreover, are the high STD rates among specific groups having an impact on the rest of the population? Let’s take a look.
The Military
As if our men and women in uniform didn’t face enough threat to their well-being, the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines have historically had higher STD rates than the civilian population. The running theory has always been that personnel of a sexually active age with long tours away from home—especially those deployed to countries with limited health care—simply find or put themselves at higher risk.”
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