The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released new data showing that upwards of 48% of African-American women are infected with herpes simplex 2 virus.
Overall, Americans are infected with the STD at 16%. Infection rates for American women are nearly twice as high as American men, with 21%, compared to 11.5 %.
However, when race is factored into the equation, the disparities become greatly magnified.
African-Americans currently have a 39.2% infection rate, compared to European-Americans, who have a 12.3% infection rate. That means African-Americans are infected nearly three times more than Whites with the incurable herpes simplex 2.
But when race and gender are factored in, the problems become epidemic, with African-American women showing the highest infection rate of herpes simplex 2 at 48%.
“This study serves as a stark reminder that herpes remains a common and serious health threat in the United States,” said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. “Everyone should be aware of the symptoms, risk factors and steps that can be taken to prevent the spread of this lifelong and incurable infection.”
Dr. Fenton presented the data at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia last week.
The CDC reports that most people do not know they are infected and transmitting the disease. It recommends that people seek medical help as soon as they see a rash or sore on their genitals.
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The egalitarian would say…”that since herpes can’t be cured, we have to infect the other races to the same percentage as the group with the highest infection rate, for fairness.”
Can you say anti-vaccine anyone?
Negroes simply will never learn. They are a race of degenerate instant gratifiers. SEX, SEX, SEX, and more SEX! In another 50 years more than half will be dead from AIDS.
"Iss da white mans fawt! Dat blue eyed debil!!!!!!!
That pic of Michelle Obama just about says it all.
Typical, people trying to convince themselves that they're more than they are and making themselves look silly!
If you weren't so gulllible you would have read the actual report and if you have enough brain cells in your head would have concluded that the report doesn't emphatically say that 48% of Black Women have Herpes, what it says is that based on the findings of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey which only looks at 5000 people to determine the general health of over 304,000,000 people living in America, the prevalence rate, the prevalence rate amongst black females was 48%. Bearing in mind that black women make up less than 10% of the population, less than 500 of the millions and millions of black women living in America would have been looked at, that coupled with the fact that there are certain known flaws in the formula used to calculate prevalence rates, the CDC would never be so stupid to emphatically say that 48% of Black Women have herpes. Obviously other's aern't that bright.
Oh and by the way, if we stop looking at percentages and look at the number of poor souls having to deal with the infection, there are approx 1.9m black people with the infection and a whooping 30 million white people with it .
Food for thought hey!.
Watch somehow this will be the White mans fault. Whitey made the Herpes virus for the Blacks. Whitey is using HAARP technology and broadcasting certain brain wave frequencies through the microwave ovens and cell phone towers to make Negroes have an insatiable appetite for sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex,…..and more sex. Negroes should be sterilized.
fuck you crackers
Amendment- figure for black people should read approx. 15million – see , some of us are not afraid to correct our own mistakes!
I do love to be called cracker, but I missed out on this one.
AntiStupidity, or cracka hata, can you please call me cracker… please? Pretty Please with sugar on top?!
You fucking idiots, 48% of black women DO NOT not have genital herpes (HSV-2). The CDC report states that of those who test positive for HSV-2, 48% are African-American women. Pick through the logic of that and it's likely you'll still fail to discern the difference, but give it a shot anyway.
The CDC says that almost 1/2 of reported cases are in black women. somehow, in this stupid racist world, the media and citizens are lying about black women? I hate america, I hate americans but I ain’t going anywhere. Troy. Thank you!
they got these results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. i’ll just copy and paste a few paragraphs regarding the survey…
How was I selected?
Participants are selected through a complex statistical process using the most current Census information. In simple terms, NHANES divides the United States into communities. The communities are divided into neighborhoods. The neighborhoods are selected at random. From each neighborhood, housing units are selected at random. Selected households are approached by our interviewers who ask residents a few short questions to determine if their household is eligible for the study. (You may have received our introductory letter, sent to “resident” at your home address.)
You have a unique health profile; if you are selected to be a participant, no other person can be substituted for you. You were selected based on your age, gender, and racial/ethnic background. No one can take your place in this survey.
What is Involved in Participating?
There are two main parts to this survey, the home interview and the health examination.
The Interview
An NHANES interviewer will come to your home to talk to you about the survey. This interviewer should present a photo identification badge which identifies this person as being from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The interviewer will ask you a few questions to see if you qualify to participate. If you do, the interviewer will set up an appointment with you for an in-home interview. During this interview you will be asked questions about your health, disease history, and diet. The interview is approximately one hour and responses are recorded on a laptop computer.
Examples of questions:
Has a doctor or other health professional ever told you that you had arthritis?
Have you heard of MyPyramid?
Again, anything you say during this interview is confidential. At the end of your interview, an appointment will be made at our Mobile Examination Center.
The Health Examination
The Mobile Exam Center (MEC) is made up of four trailers, linked sideways, which contain high-tech medical equipment. The MEC is situated in a location convenient for participants. The NHANES staff can help you with transportation to the MEC if needed.
so 48% of the black women that they interviewed and tested had HSV-2. and you have to remember the purpose of a statistic is to provide an estimate based on a representative sample.
@Troy if half of all herpes cases reported were from african american women, that would translate to around 25 million people….thats like saying every black woman has genital herpes…c’mon troy i thought you were smarter than that.
Does the photograph illustrating the article mean that the First Lady has herpes?
yuh fukn cracker yuh cn kiss ma ass yuh aids infected dik head! hw dare yuh b so racist MARK hw abt i trACK YUR CRACKER ASS DWN ND GIVE YUH SUM FUKN AIDS YUH DUM ASS MOTHER FUKER! BLACK PPL DNT ALL HVE AIDS OR CARE ALL ABT SEX ITS USUALLY DEM CRACKERS B MOLESTIN ND RAPIN YUH DUM ASS CHECK THA STATICS!
I meant "falling" instead of "failing" and "rampant" instead of "ramped" … sorry guys… too many hits on the grid-iron! LOL…
Why have the picture of Michelle Obama? That is wrong… Hopefully the people in my community will have a cultural shift towards committed relationships versus women failing prey to the “playas”.
To some of my racist white people on here… don’t get self righteous. Promiscuity runs ramped in your culture too. As a former college football player there was night a shortage of your women willing to give up sex to us. Many of those women have became y’all wives. I am just saying…
U GUYS R HIDING YOUR HATRED BEHIND POLITICS.