Tag: Michael Starnbach
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Health
Cloak partly lifted on tiny Chlamydia
The Boston Public Health Commission released 1999 statistics showing 2 percent of the city’s 15- to 19-year-olds have chlamydia. Boston’s minority girls were reported to have infection rates of almost 6 percent, and a 1998 Journal of the American Medical Association study of sexually active teenage girls in Baltimore found infection rates approaching 30 percent.…