Texas on list of states with highest rates of STDs

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Texas checked in at No. 11 on the list of states with the highest rates of reported STDs in 2013, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The San Antonio Express-News summed up the rates per 100,000 people for three of the primary STDs observed by the CDC: chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. Updated statistics for HIV/AIDS are unavailable.

Texas had a rate total of 633.8 when those numbers were added together. There were 129,861 cases of chlamydia, which translates to about 498 cases per 100,000 people. The number of cases and rate for gonorrhea were 33,835 (129.8), while syphilis had fewer cases with 1,475 (5.7)

Other states to make the top 20 were South Carolina, Mississippi, Alaska and Missouri.

Scroll through the slideshow above to see which 25 states had the most rates of STD contraction, as well as see the STD rates for the three diseases previously mentioned.

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