Number of STD cases up

Health officials have confirmed a rise in the number of case of sexually-transmitted diseases, specifically in syphilis and gonorrhoea, in the Czech Republic. HIV infections have also gone up. The findings were reported by doctors at Prague’s Bulovka Hospital on Wednesday; the facility’s Filip Rob said the number of patients treated repeatedly for STDS had also risen; he stressed that it was not uncommon that some male patients had been treated for STDS seven or eight times.

Author: Jan Velinger