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Originally Posted by roob1
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There was a reporting period many years ago when the cases of gonorrhea in The Villages went up 50%: from two to three, but that is still 50%, though it is certainly not an epidemic. Meanwhile, in the rest of the three counties of which we are a small part, the numbers were MUCH higher, and also much higher per 100,000. They remain that way. But there are newspapers that publish garbage that love to keep printing these lies. Young reporters and readers find it good for a laugh. I suspect that it is the top argument children give for why their parents shouldn’t move here. There are many diseases that are much more common here, some of them orally contracted and not sexually transmissible, like heart disease, diabetes, and emphysema.