Transmission rates for STIs

Fremen · 2008-06-20 19:01:04

Does anyone have information on the transmission rates of the more common STIs? It's not that I'm worried that I might have picked something up, but it occured to me that there's a fairly huge gap in my knowledge about this subject. Browsing wikipedia, I saw that the male to female transmission rate for HIV is .1%, which I…

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Does anyone have information on the transmission rates of the more common STIs? It's not that I'm worried that I might have picked something up, but it occured to me that there's a fairly huge gap in my knowledge about this subject.

Browsing wikipedia, I saw that the male to female transmission rate for HIV is .1%, which I found surprisingly low. On the other hand, I found out that the transmission rate of chlamidia is about 35%, which was a bit shocking. It occured to me that in all the health education I've had, this fairly vital information has been left out.

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the problem with any of this information that you are going to collect is that due to its nature its going to be very difficult to get accurate data.

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