Question

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES WORKSHEET Your Name: Use your textbook or any reliable internet source to answer the following questions about sexually transmitted diseases. If you use a source other than your textbook in your answer you must provide a CITATION for your source (what internet site or organization or individual provided the information you used in your answer?) 1. Name the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States right now. 2. About how many Americans currently have the disease you mentioned in question #1. 3. Can the disease you mentioned in question #1 be cured? 4. The most deadly sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. and the world is AIDS caused by the virus HIV. How many Americans died of HIV infection last year? 5. Which of the following activities can spread HIV from person to person (just mark "yes" or "no" or "maybe" next to the activity: a. Being bitten by a mosquito that recently fed on an infected person b. Shaking hands with an infected person c. Kissing (including French kissing) an infected person d. Giving oral sex to an infected person e. Receiving oral sex from an infected person f. Sharing a towel or cup with an infected person g. Sharing a toothbrush or razor with an infected person h. Sharing a hypodermic needle with an infected person i. Having vaginal intercourse with an infected person without a condom j. Having anal intercourse with an infected person without a condom 6. There is only one form of birth control that can protect you from sexually transmitted disease during vaginal or anal sex. Name it:

Answer 1

1. Most common sexualy transmitted disease in united states are

-Human papilomavirus

-chlamydia

-Gonorrhea

-Hepatitis B virus(HSV 2 )

-HIV

-syphilis

-Trichomoniasis

2 . Thursday , Feb 14 ( health day news) -- Here's a new ,and sobering, goverment statistics to ponder on valentine's day; Experts estimate that the number of sexually transmitted infections among Americans now total more than 110 million.

3.Bacterial STDs can be cured with antibiotics if treatment begins early enough.Viral STDs cannot be cured, viruses such as HIV, genetal herpes, human papillomavirus , and cytomegalovirus cause STDs that cannot be cured, but it can manage symptoms with medications . there is a vaccine against hepatitis B , but it will not help if you already have the disease.People with an STD caused by a virus will be infected for life and will always be at risk of infecting their sexual partners.

4.HIV is the most deadly transmitted disease.

as of 2016 ,about 675,000 people have died of HIV OR AIDS in the U.S.since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, with ( at that time) close to 13,000 people with AIDS in the United States dying each year.

5.a) Yes

b)No

c)Yes

d)Yes

e)Yes

f)Maybe

g)Yes

h)Yes

i)Yes

j)Yes

6)Condoms