Aren't most stds curable?

Question

the only ones where there is no cure for are herpes, hiv, hpv, and hepatitis c. If you wear a condom, the chances of getting those four are greatly reduced. It just seems like the "std pandemic" is greatly exaggerated.

Answer 1

Well, you're right on the "most STD's are curable" front, but condoms offer very little protection from HPV, and not as much from herpes as you'd think. (I am not saying not to use condoms, condoms are wonderful wonderful things and save a ton of lives, just the facts.)

What I think is hugely exaggerated is the AIDS epidemic. The fact is that it's very rare in developed nations, and it's a very fragile virus.

But STD's in general are insanely common. 1/4 people have some sort of STD, herpes being near the top - one of the uncurable STD's.

Chlamydia is almost as common as the flu on college campuses and 90% of women will have at least one strain of HPV in their lifetime.

STD's are everywhere. It's just a matter of whether or not we're overplaying what that actually means.

Answer 2

Herpes can be spread for as much as 3 days before you ever have a symptom.  A person who only uses a condom once the symptoms appear may have already given the disease to their partner.

HPV is not spread through body fluids.  This virus lives in epithelial cells in the lower abdomen, upper thighs, male s*****m and p***s, female v***a, and around the a**s.  A condom doesn't protect all those areas, and it's skin contact that spreads this one.  A microscopic break in one person's skin is all that's needed for the virus to move from one person to another.  A person infected with HPV doesn't have to have visible warts to spread the disease.

Gonorrhea now comes in several varieties that are resistant to antibiotics.  

The earliest sign of syphilis is a small chancre which may appear on a part of the body that isn't visible.  Now you have an infected person who can spread the disease and doesn't even know he (or she) has it.  The longer it goes untreated, the more difficult it is to cure.

And do remember that condoms break, and they slip off, and a lot of men just plain refuse to use them.  Some viruses are small enough to to get through the pores in lambskin condoms or tiny holes in latex condoms.  You really want to play "You Bet Your Life" with something for which there's no backup in case of accidents?

Maybe medical professionals are just doing a better job of diagnosing these diseases today than they were 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.  But when you look at the statistics, you'll see that the increase in incidence of some of these diseases can't be attributed only to better diagnosis.  

Answer 3

YES MOST ARE CURABLE... BUT ONLY ONES CAUSED BY BACTERIA AND PARASITES. NOT VIRUSES, VIRUSES CAN NOT BE CURED WITH ANTIBIOTICS. THE CHANCES FOR GETTING HSV ARE NOT REDUCED WITH A CONDOM. HSV IS CONTACTED FROM SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT AND MANY PEOPLE CONTRACT HERPES EVEN WITH PROTECTION. IN REALITY CONDOMS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING AGAINST HERPES