STD Rate Update

US seniors' STD rates rose 43% in five years. The Los Angeles Times /Orlando Sentinel (4/16, Jameson) reported, "Across the nation, and especially in the Sunshine State, the free-love generation is continuing to enjoy an active -- if not always healthy -- sex life." But at a "stage in life when many would expect sexually transmitted diseases to be waning, seniors are noticeably ahead of the national curve." Overall in the US, from 2005 to 2009, the number of reported cases of "syphilis and chlamydia among those 55 and older increased 43 percent," according to the Centers for Disease Control. The rise was "even more dramatic" in Central Florida, where syphilis and chlamydia cases "increased 71 percent in that same five-year period."