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<html>Wash. officials tasked with telling exes they’ve been exposed to gonorrhea In an effort to reduce the spread of STDs, Washington public health workers will tell a person with gonorrhea’s former sex partners that they may be infected. By / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, November 15, 2013, 4:58 PM Share This URL: wavebreakmedia/Getty Images/iStockphoto Government workers in Washington state will tell your exes they may have gonorrhea so you don’t have to. Related Stories
Public health officials in Washington state are doing what people with gonorrhea often fail to do: they are letting their former sexual partners know they may have been exposed to the STD.
Spokane Regional Health District workers like Anna Halloran seek out a patient's exes, one night stands and everyone in between to alert them that they could be infected.
Some people cry, some people get really angry, some people don't want to talk to me at all, she told the . A lot of people are really anxious to know who it was - of course, I can't say anything that would identify that.
Infected patients are asked for a list of people he or she had sex with in the last 90 days. Halloran then tracks them down, sometimes on the phone or via social media or in person,Cheap Authentic New York Giants Jerseys For Sale, and delivers the news.
The service is free, anonymous and likely awkward for all parties involved. However, it is also crucial in preventing the spread of gonorrhea,Cheap Authentic New York Giants Jerseys On Sale, Halloran told the NW News Network.
Many people with gonorrhea don't know they have it because they don't experience any symptoms until the STI causes serious health problems like infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease.
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Cases of gonorrhea in the Pacific Northwest have spiked in the last year, the NW News Network reported. Five counties in Washington have full outbreaks on their hands.
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For the time being, gonorrhea can be treated with antibiotics, but officials worry that a drug-resistant strain of the infection seen in some parts of Europe and Asia become rampant in the U.S.
The CDC declared this super gonorrhea an in a September report.
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