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Study Shows Soaring STD Rates In Many Areas Of New York City
181 Zip Codes Analyzed And Surge In HIV/AIDS Is Alarming In Some Areas
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A study by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has found that large parts of the city are plagued with soaring rates for multiple STDs – including HIV/AIDS.
The study surveyed 181 city ZIP codes for concurrence in rates of HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and hepatitis B, as well as two non-sexually-transmitted diseases – hepatitis C and tuberculosis. The diseases often occur among the same populations, the study noted.
The study said 33 percent of all the ZIP codes in New York City were in the top quintile citywide for multiple sexually-transmitted diseases during a survey taken in 2010. Among the most severe examples is ZIP code 10474 in Hunts Point, the Bronx, where rates of hepatitis C, chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV/AIDS all ranked in the top 20 percent of all New York City ZIP codes.
Faring even worse was ZIP code 10457, in the Tremont section of the Bronx, which ranked in the top quintile for all seven diseases surveyed. Forty-three percent of residents in the neighborhood live below the federal poverty line, the report said.
Overall, the Bronx also had the greatest percentage of ZIP codes – 68 percent – in the top 20 percent citywide for multiple STDs.
J Galt
December 11th, 2012
Nature’s way of taking care of the problem.
Maudie N Mandeville
December 11th, 2012
You just can’t itch that scab. No wonder liberals are always unhappy and angry.
Millertime
December 11th, 2012
I guess it would be racist to inquire about the various ethnic groups that inhabit these areas.
Billy Fuster
December 11th, 2012
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people…
Maudie N Mandeville
December 11th, 2012
@Millertime: 10457 demographics=17% OWS white. You can fill in the other 83%.
Stranded in Sonoma
December 11th, 2012
The only thing they had to equate to the rise in STDs was high rates of poverty.
Did anyone bother to check the sexual proclivity of the residents? What is the percentage of homosexuals in the populations of these zip codes? Did the number of homosexuals increase (population migration) in these zip codes? Did more affluent zip codes lose some of their homosexual population to these less affluent zip codes? Was it due to the 0bama economy? Does the rate of increase in STDs correlate with any increase of the homosexual population of these zip codes?
Oh, wait! We can’t do that because non politically correct statistical study is homophobic.
Never mind.
CrustyB
December 11th, 2012
Good!
Menderman
December 11th, 2012
If I remember right, all those zip codes are about 90% libs.
Shocking! The party with no morals is #1 in STD’s!
What would Costas say?
even steven
December 11th, 2012
New York… The Chancre State
Now, there’s a fine state logo if I’ve ever seen one.
Stranded in Sonoma
December 11th, 2012
@Menderman — Ban sex because it is the leading cause of STDs.
Xavier
December 11th, 2012
Shouldn’t that be “Soreing Rates”?
pete
December 11th, 2012
any of them bother to learn to speak english yet, or are they just here for the freebies?
aleon
December 11th, 2012
Leveling the playing field?
Everybody getting a fair share?
Redistributing the wealth?
It’s all making sense to me now.
thirdtwin
December 11th, 2012
Probably ALSO chock-full of TB, yaws, scurvy, beri beri cholera and other assorted third world diseases which used to be rare in the USA.
norman einstein
December 11th, 2012
@Stevie, “Now, there’s a fine state logo if I’ve ever seen one.”
LMAO! You’ve laid down a challenge for BFH.
I can picture it on license plates already!
Menderman
December 11th, 2012
Stranded, I was think he would say “We wouldn’t have STD’s if we just got rid of Dicks”
but I like yours better.
thirdtwin
December 11th, 2012
Oh yeah…Mental illness and birth defects caused by inbreeding are probably on the rise in some NYC zip codes.
thirdtwin
December 11th, 2012
@Norman einstein–
“Daddy, what is that picture on that New York tag…the Big Apple?”
“Um, no, Jimmy…say, why don’ t we play something else besides license plate bingo?”
FreeMan & Sarah Intend to Defend
December 11th, 2012
More Fluck (Fluke) condoms needed.
FreeMan & Sarah Intend to Defend
December 11th, 2012
Free, that is. Free Fluck Comdoms
FreeMan & Sarah Intend to Defend
December 11th, 2012
Cumdumbs
J Frank Parnell
December 11th, 2012
A hallmark of liberalism is never considering nor being held accountable for the consequences one’s actions; Sowell’s “Stage One” thinking.
Nature could give a flying crap about cognitive illusions.
CrustyB
December 11th, 2012
The New York City Motto:
Vini V.D. Vici. We came, we caught, we cankered.
Ricky
December 11th, 2012
looks like they found something more effective than sickle cell for population control.
Xavier
December 11th, 2012
Looks like my old girlfriend moved to NY.
Protip: Don’t date the daughter of a Democratic Senator.
Plain Jane
December 11th, 2012
Am surprised they used the term STD rather than the less serious sounding labeling term of STI.
Plain Jane
December 11th, 2012
or …less “permanent” sounding label..
Unneutral
December 11th, 2012
Zip codes??
How about zip your pants and stop spreading STDs?
Yeah, I know, liberals insulate themselves from facts and seek to place the blame on someone else.
Three Rivers
December 11th, 2012
Well, at least they have strict gun control, healthy size soft drinks and breast milk.
Wraith
December 11th, 2012
Gomorrah-on-the-Hudson. Anyone really surprised?
reddecaesari
December 11th, 2012
minorities = prison = homosexual acts = hiv
with catch and release, these fine young cannibals bring gifts back to their loved ones.
and so it goes.
charlotte
December 12th, 2012
I wonder if this had anything to do with all the vaginas being Occupied at Zucotti Park?
charlotte
December 12th, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXQbZDwV0w
“As Africans we want to ask Barack Obama if this is what he wants to bring to Africa as a human right?”