Venereal Disease, A Resource Guide written and compiles by M. Ann Weir, November 1976

(1976) Venereal Disease, A Resource Guide written and compiles by M. Ann Weir, November 1976. Public Health, Department of (Health and Human Services, Department of)

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Abstract

Iowa and the nation are in the midst of a venereal disease epidemic which is hitting hardest among young people under twenty-five years of age. In Iowa, at least 70 percent of the reported cases of venereal disease occur in this younger age group. Gonorrhea alone is the most common reported communicable disease in the country. If as many cases of infectious hepatitis or rubella were reported, the people of Iowa would be aware of the problem and alarmed. Yet each year the number of cases of syphilis and gonorrhea increases by about 10 per cent, and the outcry is inaudible. This publication explains some of these issues.