University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 16; 1990
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Watkins reports fewer STDs
By Steve Bailev
Kansan staff writer
Although the number of sexually transmitted diseases treated at Wattkins Memorial Health Center normally increases during April, physicians have not seen large increases this month, a Wattins official said Friday.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said he was surprised by the lack of cases treated at Watkins this month.
"We have seen a slight increase in the number of cases of genital warts, but we definitely are not having the usual increase," Yockey said. "It is very low. It has been incredible to me so far."
Although numbers are not yet available, Yockey said the increase was nothing like the increases in Spring 1987 and 1988.
"During those times we saw the number of cases rise to twice what they normally would be," he said.
"During April in 1988, about 885 visits were related to sexually transmitted diseases. Our normal April numbers are about 400 visits related to sexually transmitted diseases."
However, Yockey said these numbers could be misleading since they measured the number of visits, not the number of cases.
"Most people who come in for STD treatments are seen more than once for one reason or another." he said.
Yockey said one reason for the annual April increase was student behavior during spring break. Since the incubation period for most of these diseases is 10 days to two weeks, most students do not realize they have the infection or seek treatment until about mid-April.
Yockey said that last year was the first time since 1895 that there had been a decrease in the number of cases treated at Watkins.
becoming much more aware and concerned with catching these infections," he said.
"I get the sense that even though there is still a problem, students are
Yockey said he thought safe-sex education was largely responsible for the drop in cases seen at Watkins.'
"We see more chlamydia than anything else," he said. "We also see genital warts and some gonorrhea."
Janine Demo, health educator at Watkins, said education about sexually transmitted diseases should be more of a year-long process because of cases treated throughout the year.
He said there were about three different sexually transmitted diseases normally treated at Watkins during the spring.
"We usually see more cases right after spring break, about a month after school starts and right after Christmas break." Demo said. "The threat of AIDS has also made the need for condoms and safe-sex education more apparent."
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