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 PJ Hamel On NPR!

1 in 4 teen girl have STD

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A new federal study reveals that one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease. Brenda Wilson, NPR science correspondent, and Dr. Charles Wibbelsman, member of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on adolescence, answer questions about the startling findings and offer ...
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    jen
    Thursday, May 01, 2008 at 01:43 AM

    There can definatly be some wrong numbers in there since they only did a study on 800 kids thats spreading it pretty thin. While I do belive that many people are infected with some kind of an STD I don't think 26 percent is a very fair number, at least I hope it's wrong.

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