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Teenage sex diseases soar
Sexually transmitted diseases are increasing amongst British teenagers.
Statistics given in a parliamentary answer by Melanie Johnson, public health minister, show that gonorrhoea more than tripled in boys aged 13 to 19 between 1995 and 2002 and revealed almost as rapid an increase in girls of the same age.
Chlamydia also showed a big increase: from 58.6 per 100,000 teenage boys in 1995 to 234.1 in 2002 and from 257.7 to 759.7 per 100,000 girls.
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