According to a Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the city of Austin presently ranks 56th among the 100 cities in America with the highest STD rates. New data on the STD numbers across city centers in the U.S. supported the statistics, which identified that in the state capital, for every 100K residents, 1,006 STD cases had been reported. And it wasn’t even the highest-ranking metro area in Texas.
Across the U.S., the CDC reported that more than 2.4 million STD cases were diagnosed in 2018. However, sources caution that these figures don’t reflect thousands of others who are yet unaware that they even have an STD, considering many of these diseases won’t display symptoms which are obvious. Among these, chlamydia, Human Papillomavirus (HPV,) and gonorrhea were listed. Even though antibiotics can cure gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia, there may be a lack of knowledge or education around that fact.