The number of babies born with syphilis is accelerating in Colorado and nationwide

[politux]

https://coloradosun.com/2018/12/13/color...-increase/

The number of Colorado babies born with syphilis is rising, and health officials are blaming riskier sexual behaviors related to the opioid crisis and social-dating apps including Tinder.

The numbers are still small — five newborns so far this year — but they have increased quickly enough to sound an alarm among public health officials. Nationwide, diagnosis of syphilis in newborns has more than doubled in the last five years.

What’s particularly frustrating to doctors is that’s it’s preventable, as syphilis is easily treated with penicillin. “It’s unnecessary in this day and age for any child to have to go through that,” said Dr. Daniel Shodell, deputy director of the Disease Control and Environmental Epidemiology Division at the state health department. “One hundred percent of these cases are preventable.”

Kids need to get off the Tinder.

[contrail]

Kids need to get off the Tinder.

It was made 18+ but that not really gonna stop kids these days.

[dueda]

Tinder or not, they'll circumvent any chastity systems. And let's be honest, if there's plenty of education and health services, why is this happening?

[contrail]

Boredom?

[politux]

And let's be honest, if there's plenty of education and health services, why is this happening?

No one in the US is afraid of HIV anymore, so people use condoms less. But if you're hooking up with randoms on Tinder and not using condoms you're just asking to catch something.

[dueda]

I'd say both are right, but it seems to me it's a "fashion" like the colored rubber wristbands; people need those, for adults is the status symbol like a next iPhony and for kids is an adventure like having sex. This means lack of proper values, education, and social interactions; or just "society fails miserably".