My son was telling me last night that 1 in every 4 people in our state has chlamydia

[MissMillie]

And I got to counting the number of people in my department at work.... and it would seem that there are at least 4 people I work w/ who need to see a doctor.

And then of course, I was trying to think of which ones it could be.....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. I planted some last year. They never seem to make it through the winter, though.

[MissMillie]

3. my other post was supposed to go here

oops.

[MissMillie]

2. apparently you need to practice

safe gardening and put a cover on them.

[surrealAmerican]

4. sex ed?

[mcctatas]

5. Co-workers, hell I am still going through my extended family!

I always knew that my cousin XXXXX was a tramp :P

[LynneSin]

6. OMG that's like that scene from "Baby Mama"

Tina Fey was reading a book called "1000 things that can go wrong with your baby" and one of the comments she was telling her sister was that 1 in every 2000 people end up as a hermaphrodites, which her sister said that means 4 people from their school would have that condition.

[supernova]

7. Statistics get creepy

when you start applying them to the people you know.

I was watching a documentary on the plague in Europe in the Middle Ages. The narrator was saying something like 30% of the pop. of Europe at the time died. That's one out of every three people. Yikes! I started thinking about one out of every three people I KNOW, keeling over suddenly from a mystery illness.

:scared:

[MajorChode]

20. 90% of statistics are bullshit

[HopeHoops]

8. Where are you, Texas?

:shrug:

[MissMillie]

9. no, Massachusetts

I'm betting my son is wrong on the statistic.... but thus far I haven't found any specific statistics, but I did see that MA is 25th among the 50 states for this disease. So, not so good, but not so bad either.

[HopeHoops]

10. Okay, I can see that.

I lived in NH for 10 years and worked in Mass. most of it.

[mockmonkey]

11. MA per 100,000 is 251

http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats07/figures/3.htm

[MissMillie]

12. so that's like 1 in 400

not one in 4....

sounds like my kid has been getting his info from unreliable sources. I'm gonna have to cut off his Limbaugh fix (kidding, he hates Limbaugh)

[One_Life_To_Give]

13. La, Women 16-24

Chlamydia — Prevalence among 16- to 24-year-old women entering the National Job Training Program by state of residence: United States and outlying areas, 2007

Lousiana 23.5%
Mass 8.1%
www.cdc.gov/std/stats07/slides/adolescents.ppt#485,3,Chlamydia — Prevalence among 16- to 24-year-old women entering the National Job Training Program by state of residence: United States and outlying areas

For certain groups the rates of infection can be much higher than it is in others. Youth have a higher prevalance than us seasoned folks. I think we can all guess the reasons will include lack of comprehensive Sex Ed, suceptibility to peer pressure, local culture etc.

[unpossibles]

14. is that like Clamato? nt

[rug]

15. I though 1 in 4 people with chlamydia lived in New Jersey.

[Redbear]

16. I think this is where that stat started

Nationally, ..."approximately one in four sexually active young adults
ages 15 to 24 contracts an STD each year."

This is for all STDS and only for people in that particular age group. If you limit it to chlamydia and expand it to all age groups the number is much smaller.

http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/upload/3040-03.pdf

[Nikia]

17. Which is why everyone who is not in a committed relationship

Where both partners were tested should use condoms. People forget that there are diseases that are much more common and transmittable than HIV.

[Withywindle]

18. And much easier to treat.

I had it once - two weeks of antibiotics and it was gone. No biggie. I'll take it over last year's strep throat anyday. :scared:

[MajorChode]

19. That means if you know 3 people and none of them have it, it must be you

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. If it's a state I've been to, then yes, it's true