The Valentine’s Gift You Don’t Want

Kimi LeVadge

February 14, 2017

The Valentine’s Gift You Don’t Want; Which States Have the Most STDs?

Love is in the air and all that cliche stuff thanks to Valentine’s Day, but what’s really out there? Before you consider a V-Day fling, check out these STD stats and see where your state lies (or lays, pun intended).

Between Tinder, Grindr, and other very NSFW websites, casual hookups are an all time high. With increased casual sex comes some bad news: STDs have reached all times highs, according to the CDC.

To help you get your game on while staying safe, we put together a list of the best and worst states for STDs in America. To create this report, backgroundchecks.org used CDC data on STDs, state and county health agency data, and social media surveys. For empirical data, we used a rate of incidents per 100k residents normalized for population. We attached a weighted average to CDC and state health data, and factored in survey data to get our final rankings:

The Most Diseased States Ranking

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Ranking [Worst to Best]	State	Gonorrhea rate per 100,000k	Chlamydia rate per 100k	Weighted Disease Score
1	Alaska	151.1	768.3	521.42
2	Louisiana	221.1	695.2	505.56
3	North Carolina	199.2	647.4	468.12
4	Mississippi	192.9	580.2	425.28
5	New Mexico	119.3	605.7	411.14
6	South Carolina	169.8	569.9	409.86
7	Georgia	158.3	570.8	405.8
8	Oklahoma	168.7	542.2	392.8
9	Arkansas	161.1	545	391.44
10	Alabama	148.4	543.6	385.52
11	Illinois	133	540.4	377.44
12	Texas	147.3	523.6	373.08
13	New York	129.4	524.7	366.58
14	Delaware	140	492.2	351.32
15	Ohio	142.9	489.3	350.74
16	California	139.5	487.5	348.3
17	Missouri	147.5	477.4	345.44
18	Tennessee	128	477.5	337.7
19	Arizona	122.5	481.1	337.66
20	Hawaii	87.3	498.3	333.9
21	South Dakota	122.8	462.9	326.86
22	Nevada	127.9	455.3	324.34
23	Michigan	104.2	469.1	323.14
24	Maryland	114.8	459.3	321.5
25	Florida	121.3	454.8	321.4
26	Indiana	118.9	437.9	310.3
27	Colorado	81.9	445.4	300
28	Virginia	97.3	424.5	293.62
29	North Dakota	92.5	427.2	293.32
30	Pennsylvania	100	418.1	290.86
31	Wisconsin	91.4	423.5	290.66
32	Nebraska	90.5	422.9	289.94
33	Washington	101.6	406.4	284.48
34	Rhode Island	55	433.6	282.16
35	Kentucky	106	395.2	279.52
36	Oregon	81.4	410.7	278.98
37	Montana	82.5	408.8	278.28
38	Kansas	87.3	394.8	271.8
39	Minnesota	75.1	389.3	263.62
40	Iowa	72.3	388.9	262.26
41	New Jersey	80.9	350.6	242.72
42	Connecticut	58.1	364.9	242.18
43	Massachusetts	56.6	357.3	237.02
44	Wyoming	30	348.7	221.22
45	Idaho	28.9	344.5	218.26
46	Utah	53.1	293.3	197.22
47	Vermont	24.7	303.4	191.92
48	Maine	31.4	298.1	191.42
49	West Virginia	41.6	268	177.44
50	New Hampshire	18.5	233.3	147.38

So, was your city on the list? Mine was – New York came in at number 13 with a Weighted Disease Score of

366.58.

Sheesh.

My current state of Florida is number 25 with a Weighted Disease Score of 321.4.

We’ve got to do better, people!