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- About 20 million people every year are infected by and STD
- People ages 15-24 account for half of the STD's per year
- Girls get 51% of the infections while guys get 49% of them

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Common Symptoms:
- Sores appear on mouth, genitals, and/or anus (painless)
- Hair loss and flu-like symptoms (in untreated)
How people get it:
- Sexual contact, with or without penetration, with mouth, genitals, and/or anus
- Easy to spread without knowing it
- Men who have sex with other men are especially prone to this
- Condoms can reduce risk
- Curable with specific antibiotics
Effects:
- Brain damage, blindness, heart disease, and death (if left untreated)
- Brain, eyes, teeth, bones, skin, or liver damage in newborns

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Common Symptoms:
- Sometimes no symptoms
- Cold sores, bumps, or cuts in genital area
- Itchiness
- Fever
- Tiredness
How people get it:
- Sexual contact
- Can still spread even if now sores are visible
- Condoms may reduce risk, but do not cover it all
- Sexually active people are at risk
- No cure (doctors may prescribe a treatment for symptoms)
Effects:
- PID (women)
- Unable to have or father babies
- Tubal pregnancy
- Infected testes

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Common Symptoms:
- Sometimes has no symptoms
- Warts and bumpy skin in genital and anal area
How people get it:
- Sexual contact with genital area and petting (touching someone's genitals)
- Sexually active people are at risk
- Condoms may reduce risk, but do not cover all the areas
- No cure (warts can be removed by doctor)
Effects:
- Repeated outbreaks
- Higher chance of getting cervical cancer
- Brain damage or death in newborns

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Common Symptoms:
- Itching
- Small lice leech off of blood and hatch eggs
- Bumps on skin
How people get it:
- Sexual Contact with the pubic region
- Sexually active people are at risk
- Curable with lotions
Effects:
- Allergic to insect bites

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Common Symptoms: :
- Exhaustion, fever
- Muscle pain
- Yellow eyes
- Dark urine
- Light stool
- Often no symptoms
How people get it:
- Sex
- Blood transfer
- Needles via drugs
Effects:
- Liver disease
- Liver cancer

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Common Symptoms:
- Genital or rectal discharge
- Pain urinating
- Often no symptoms
How people get it:
- Spread by sex
- All sexually active people are at risk
- Curable with specific antibiotics
- Latex condoms can reduce risk
Effects
- Pelvis inflammatory disease
- Inability to reproduce
- Infected newborns
- Infected testicles