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Summary: An STD is a sexually transmitted disease that is spread by having oral, vaginal or anal sex with an infected person. Find out about different types of STDs, such as genital herpes, HPV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, with information from a physician's assistant in this free video on sexually transmitted diseases.
Albert Hedgepeth Jr. graduated from physician's assistant school at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1980. He currently works as a P.A. in gynecology for Wake County, but has experience in cardiac...read more
"First of all what's an STD? An STD is a sexually transmitted disease. That's any disease that you can spread by having sex with someone who already has that disease and this can be ether orally, anally or vaginally. There are several types of STD's. Some of which you probably haven't thought of very commonly. Such as hepatitis B other ones are genital herpes. Which can give you blistered lesions of the skin in and around the sexual organs. Also the human papola virus is now been found to be responsible for developing genital warts and in later life for women cervical cancer. If they are infected at a early age even in their teen years. When they are first experimenting with sexual activity. The other common forms of the STD's are syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomonas and most people think of STD's as gonorrhea and chlamydia and trichomonas but these others we mentioned before are also sexually transmitted."
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