HotSpotATL - Hot 107.9 Atlanta's Home for the Hip-Hop Community » genital herpes http://hotspotatl.com Atlanta's Home for the Hip-Hop Community Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:38:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 HotSpotATL - Hot 107.9 Atlanta's Home for the Hip-Hop Communityhttp://your-img-here.com/http://hotspotatl.com REPORT: Nearly Half Of All Black Women Have Genital Herpes http://hotspotatl.com/national/shyneka/new-report-says-nearly-12-of-all-black-women-have-genital-herpes/ http://hotspotatl.com/national/shyneka/new-report-says-nearly-12-of-all-black-women-have-genital-herpes/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:28:14 +0000 MZ Shyneka http://hotspotatl.com/?p=570531 REPORT: Nearly Half Of All Black Women Have Genital HerpesThe Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a lifelong and incurab... Read more..]]> The Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a lifelong and incurable infection that can cause recurrent and painful genital sores.
According to the CDC herpes is still one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States.

The study shows that women and Blacks are the most commonly infected with women at 20.5% and Blacks at 39.2%, nearly three times the rate of whites at 12.3%. Black women top everyone else’s rates altogether at 48%.

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