Ever get into one of those conversations that you wonder later how you got drawn into? Some time back, I was gassing with an acquaintance, and the subject of venereal diseases came up; my acquaintance mentioned having seen a news piece about a spike in Chlamydia cases. I shrugged. “Doesn’t really affect me,” I said.
“Oh,” my acquaintance replied. “Guess you’re in a low-risk group, right?”
I reflected on that. I’m in my ’60s, happily married, faithful to my wife, and have been for 32 years. “Ain’t none lower.”
Now we see that syphilis cases are reaching record numbers, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predictably blames the problem on the federal government not throwing enough money at it.
Syphilis rates have continued to surge, reaching levels the nation hasn’t seen since 1950, according to new federal data released Tuesday.
According to the report from the Centers for…
