The Danger When Love Arrives Late ; Medical Notes
Evening Standard - London › February 15, 2005
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MIDDLE-aged men and women who find themselves back in the dating game because of separat ion, divorce or bereavement are being warned about the dangers of unprotected sex in the light of new figures from the Health Protection Agency that show the number of new cases of chlamydia and gonorrhoea in the over-40s has trebled in the past decade.
Chlamydia and gonorrhoea may have grabbed the headlines, but closer examination of the statistics suggests they are not the diseases we should be worrying about. Of the 89,431 confirmed cases of chlamydia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2003, just 416 were in middle-aged women.See the full content of this document
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The Danger When Love Arrives Late ; Medical Notes
That may be three times the number in 1995 but, while the trend is worrying, the absolute risk remains very small. Middle-aged women are 200 times less likely to carry the infection than those in their twenties.
The real danger is HIV. The number of new cases of HIV infection among heterosexual middle-aged men and women has risen just as rapidly as chlamydia in ...See the full content of this document
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