Call me a deplorable clinger... but teenage plastic surgeons in basement operating rooms would likely raise a few red flags in my neck of the woods.**********
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Between 1998 and 2015, chlamydia has risen from 39,372 to 116,499 annual cases among all ages and genders, and gonorrhea infections increased from 5,076 to 19,845 in the same time period.
Infectious syphilis rates rose dramatically from 501 to 4,551 cases, which is doubly shocking considering experts say it was nearly eradicated in North America 10 years ago.