News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - October 1985

Youth Magazine Staff

New Sex Disease Explosion by Lowell Wagner Jr - It's Still the Same Old Weed by Tom Delamater - How to Spend a Trillion Dollars by Dan C Taylor - Is It Live - Or Is It Plasma? by Robert C Taylor: Sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) have exploded in recent years with a near-epidemic fierceness. It is estimated that up to 20 percent of American teens will be infected by an STD before they graduate from high school. Up to half of all reported STDs are among people under 25 years old. Among diseases that can be spread from person to person, only colds and the flu hit more people each year than STDs. It used to be called "the silent epidemic." But there's nothing quiet anymore about this explosion of STDs that has hit nearly every country in the world. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library