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Health officials taken aback by STD outbreak
July 26, 2014
Wire and staff reports
Ajump in the number of cases of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea over the past year in rural southwestern Oregon has state and local health officials alarmed and puzzled.
In Jackson County alone, gonorrhea cases have skyrocketed by 387 percent, from 31 cases in 2012 to 151 in 2013, according to public-health officials.
State figures show Josephine County saw an increase of 270 percent, from 10 in 2012 to 37 in 2013. In Douglas County, it went up 1,050 percent, from two cases to 23.
The statewide increase was 18.5 percent.
Along with increased cases of syphilis, gonorrhea cases have been on the rise in recent years, says Jim Shames, the county's public-health director.
Percentage-wise, its more common among men having sex with men and those involved in the sex trade, but it has been spreading out of those demographics, Shames says...
Health officials taken aback by STD outbreak
July 26, 2014
Wire and staff reports
Ajump in the number of cases of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea over the past year in rural southwestern Oregon has state and local health officials alarmed and puzzled.
In Jackson County alone, gonorrhea cases have skyrocketed by 387 percent, from 31 cases in 2012 to 151 in 2013, according to public-health officials.
State figures show Josephine County saw an increase of 270 percent, from 10 in 2012 to 37 in 2013. In Douglas County, it went up 1,050 percent, from two cases to 23.
The statewide increase was 18.5 percent.
Along with increased cases of syphilis, gonorrhea cases have been on the rise in recent years, says Jim Shames, the county's public-health director.
Percentage-wise, its more common among men having sex with men and those involved in the sex trade, but it has been spreading out of those demographics, Shames says...