Genital Herpes at an All-Time High in the UK
Last year, UK government officials reported that genital herpes is the fastest-spreading STI in the country – in just one year, the number of cases increased by 20 percent (there were over 26,000 new cases reported in 2007).
Although the increase is partly due to improved screening measures and efforts to test young people whose diagnoses may've otherwise gone undetected, those changes are still not enough on their own to account for the unprecedented rise, say scientists.