Gonorrhea and syphilis was 25 times higher among blacks than (Herpes dating) whites in North Carolina
In the late 1990s, the incidence rate of gonorrhea and syphilis was 25 times higher among blacks than whites in North Carolina. Increased education and treatment had reduced that to 10 times greater in 2003.
In Cumberland County, the incidence rate for HIV/AIDS and gonorrhea was 10 times as high among blacks as among whites in 2003. The rate was 1.6 times as high for syphilis.
The number of cases of gonorrhea reported in Cumberland County have remained fairly constant since 1997: from 1,036 cases to 1,055. The number of chlamydia cases have more than doubled, from 1,138 to 2,657.
Two-thirds of those infected with chlamydia in Cumberland County were between the ages of 20 and 29. Sixty-three percent were black, and 28 percent were white.
Statistically, the most likely person to have gonorrhea in Cumberland County is a black male in his early 20s. The most likely person to have syphilis is a black male in his mid- to late 30s.
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