More than 1 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases pop up across the world every day
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/wake-up-call-1-million-new-std-infections-daily376 million new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis developed among people between the ages of 15-49 in 2016. Some of the cases may be multiple infections at the same time or re-infections among the same people.
I can't wrap my head around an entire US-sized population getting infected in one year. Even including a percentage of repeat offenders, isn't that 1/18th of the entire world pop?
Syphilis, which can be transmitted during pregnancy and childbirth, caused 200,000 stillbirths and newborn deaths in 2016.
How is it you can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt, but not for being such a dirty, dirty ho that you cause mass death and destruction?