Montgomery ranks at top in STD cases

They didn’t include rural parts and only reviewed numbers from sub-urbs and cities with considerably large population.

In fact, Montgomery actually ranks higher than much larger cities like Philadelphia and Baltimore and New Orleans. Herpes data was not included in the study.

According to the 2013 numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alabama is having third rank in chlamydia cases and second in gonorrhea cases.

Southern cities such as New Orleans; Killeen, Texas; and Fayetteville, North Carolina also made the top 10 portion of the list.

Montgomery, having a population of 201.332, according to recent statistics issued by the US Census Bureau, was reputed to have a certain number of occurrences, per 100.000 individuals: Gonorrhea – 1.309; Syphilis – 23; Chlamydia – 3.039; and a total report of STDs summed up 4.371 cases. The data were then normalized through rates of the disease per 100,000 individuals. “When most people verify quantities and attempt to arrive at precisely the same spot like informed in this (ranks), we predict the digits are in the estimated in regulations of the numerals referenced for Montgomery.” said fundamental health care police officer Tom Miller of this very Alabama Department of Public Health.

He also says, “The take home here is that with 2014 data, Montgomery will look a whole lot different. The caveat there is that if other cities see the same downward trend, it wouldn’t make a difference in our rankings”, Miller continued.

Miller told the Montgomery Advertiser that he wasn’t aware of another time Montgomery received a No. 1 ranking for most STDs in the U.S., but that he thought the higher rates were due to visitors as well as residents in the city.

“It’s hard to quantify how much is contributed by specific groups”, he said. Fayetteville and Killeen in North Carolina have huge military populations from Fort Bragg and Fort Hood while Norfolk in Virginia also houses the Norfolk Base. “EPT allows us to give educational material and the actual medication for the individual to take to his or her partners”.

The report by the Centers for Disease Control shows that there were 1,401,906 reported cases of chlamydia in 2013.