Georgia ranks among the top 10 states with the highest number of sexually transmitted diseases, according to a new study.
BackgroundChecks.org used Centers of Disease Control and Prevention data on STDs, state and county health agency data and social media surveys to create a list of the best and worst states for STDs in America.
Georgia ranked seventh and Florida ranked 25th.
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The state with the most cases of STDs per 100,000 residents was Alaska.
New Hampshire was the state with the least STDs, according to the ranking.
The report used a rate of incidents per 100,000 residents normalized for population empirical data for its empirical data, and weighted average to CDC and state health data, and factored in survey data to get the final rankings.
See a chart of the states ranked from worst to best on BackgroundChecks.org.
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