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May 23 , 2008
One in Four American Teenage Girls Has Sexually-Transmitted Infection
A recent study of girls ages 14-19 showed that a large number had one of the four most commonly transmitted infections: chlamydia, trichomoniasis, genital herpes, and HPV-human papillomavirus.

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