Thursday, June 12, 2008

New York City Gone Wild: One in Four Have Herpes Virus

What Sex and the City really looks like.
NEW YORK, June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - More than a quarter of the residents of New York, the city that never sleeps, now live with genital herpes, contracted through freewheeling sexual promiscuity. A new report from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows that the restless inhabitants of the city have higher rates of infection from sexually transmitted diseases than the rest of the United States.
Health officials announced Monday that 26% of adult New Yorkers have been infected with Herpes Simplex Virus-2 (the virus responsible for genital herpes), while the national average has declined to 19% (
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