STDs Patient Information Fact Sheet. What are STDs? As the name implies, sexually transmitted diseases—or sexually transmitted infections, as some experts prefer—develop from organisms that ...

Sexually transmitted diseases, commonly called STDs, are diseases that are spread by having sex with someone who has an STD. You can get a sexually transmitted disease from sexual activity that ...

STD rates actually increased from 2013 to 2014, for the first time since 2006. On its helpful fact sheet about the report, the CDC noted that "some groups bear a disproportionate burden for STDs ...

Both men and women can carry the sexually transmitted disease, which can also spread on sex toys if they have infected fluid on them. Our fact-check sources: CDC, retrieved Sept. 5, Trichomoniasis ...

For starters, the sexually transmitted herpes is caused by two viruses, not a parasitic worm. "That post is so, so wrong in many different ways," said Dr. Patrick Jackson , an infectious disease ...

I wonder if we should be stating so definitively that one in four teen girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease. The finding was released this week at a big STD prevention conference in ...

The number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Minnesota climbed to a new high of 17,057 in 2007, according to new data released by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) for Nati… ...

An all-time high of 25,986 sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed in Minnesota in 2015, according to a report released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Health. The number of STDs ...

This patient information fact sheet provides information on the definition, symptoms, causes, diagnostic tests, and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).