"Despite the enormous progress recent years have seen in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of some STDs, the CDC estimates that around 19 million new infections occur in America every year, nearly 50 per cent of them in young people aged 15 to 24, causing nearly 15 billion dollars in direct medical costs in 2006, in addition to the untold physical and psychological damage, for which there is no price tag."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/88683.php
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