STD Data Come as No Surprise, Area Teenagers Say

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Wed, 03/12/2008 - 23:00

Elizabeth Alderman, adolescent specialist at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, was astounded by a federal report this week showing that two out of five teenage girls who have had sex have experienced at least one sexually transmitted infection.

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