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Name: Janet Wilson on Mar 15, 2010Comments: Although safe sex should be what we practise and teach our young ones, it is important that misleading information is not spread causing our community to splinter.Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Mugala on Mar 15, 2010Comments: I work in Public Health and still read this the way a majority of people have read it: That 48% of black women have Herpes!!! This is another example of how the black community is marginalised. The damage has been done and CDC needs to at least be on the record about how this should be interpreted!Flag
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Name: Mary Mugala on Mar 15, 2010Comments: I concur with the two comments above. It is socially irresponsible to generalize a disease to a whole group of women belonging to one race in big bold black ink. If anything, that's all anyone is going to see as they skim through the paper on the train on their way to work and that is the message they will pass along. We are all not bio-statisticians or epidemiologists to read into that statistic a bit deeper. The average person will take that headline as fact and run with it. If the message was to inform, it should have been done in a more educative way. Yes, I appreciate being informed but I do not appreciate the stigma that will come from this. After all is said and done, what will be remembered by readers is that black women (whether in the US or not) have a very high prevalence rate as it pertains to Herpes. Let's be more responsible!Flag
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Name: Jackie on Mar 15, 2010Comments: This is problem with web news. Fact Check your sources! And tv media shame on you! You should know better!Flag
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Name: Felicia Thomas on Mar 15, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: One on Mar 16, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Brenda A. Sazonova on Mar 17, 2010Comments: I emailed jdouglas@cdc.gov, whom is supposedly the source of this statistic being released. I also spoke with a CDC representative who stated that no such statistic is on their fact sheet or website. I am outraged and hurt by this grossly exaggerated mistinterpretation. If a defamation lawsuit could be started, I would so vote for it!Flag
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Name: Sadie on Mar 17, 2010Comments: CDC you had better clarify your findings and explain the socioeconomic background of the 1,000 black women you used to come to this conclusion IMMEDIATELY. or you are going to have a lot of angry black women on your hands.Flag
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Name: L. Lynette on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Every research class I've taken has taught me to not generalize something from an extremely small sample to a large group of persons. That's true for situations like this also. Did you not think that this would cause panic and make black women look bad in the process? Sexually transmitted infections are bad and we get that. There is no need to spook the masses and have everyone handling us with 10 ft poles while you work through your premature conclusions. What may be true for risk-taking teenagers may not be for hardworking, sexually conservative 30 somethings. Get your facts straight, and please report the truth, as we know it.Flag
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Name: L. Lynette on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Every research class I've taken has taught me to not generalize something from an extremely small sample to a large group of persons. That's true for situations like this also. Did you not think that this would cause panic and make black women look bad in the process? Sexually transmitted infections are bad and we get that. There is no need to spook the masses and have everyone handling us with 10 ft poles while you work through your premature conclusions. What may be true for risk-taking teenagers may not be for hardworking, sexually conservative 30 somethings. Get your facts straight, and please report the truth, as we know it.Flag
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Name: Oliver Pierce on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Come on... please get the statistics right!Flag
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Name: Kitty Sutton on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Race-based health research fuels a collection of dubious background assumptions and creates a negative profile of Black patients.Flag
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Name: Denis Edwards on Mar 18, 2010Comments: This is vile propoganda, aimed to scare parents into having their daughters take the HPV vaccineFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 18, 2010Comments: Thank you sister!Flag
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Name: E. Angelica Whitmal on Mar 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Shaimonique Pipkin-Cooper on Mar 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 21, 2010Comments: This sounds to me like the hype about HIV when we first started hearing about it...I do not believe any sexually transmitted disease is exclusive or more prone to a certain race; that is ridiculous and irresponsible to publish. While economics may have a connection to exposure to disease, it does not guarantee exposure. Furthermore, poor neighbordhoods are not exclusive to Black families. Black women have a hard enough time getting people to treat them like the wonderful women that they are without having to constantly dodge every new slander the media/America comes up with.Flag
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Name: Cheryl Campbell on Apr 8, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Monti Morrison on Apr 20, 2010Comments: This is bull crap for CDC to pull this saying 48 % of black women have herpes when the study was based on 1000 black women.Flag
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Name: Teri McClain on Apr 22, 2010Comments: This is ridiculous and sick. I am so tired of being labeled. It is an outrage!!Flag
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Name: Iesha Mona Wilson on Apr 24, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Shanika Marsh-Sheridan on Apr 28, 2010Comments: I am outraged at the fact that this can be said...It is hard enough to be a black woman and raise children with self esteem issues. These findings should be pulled for being racially motivated.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 30, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Eboni Waldburg on May 1, 2010Comments: how irresponsible and utterly unscientific.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 23, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Felicia Wilson on Aug 23, 2010Comments: appallingFlag
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Name: Marika Vin on Nov 15, 2010Comments: I have done a petition to push the government to fund research for a HSV1 & HSV2 cure. I agree with this petition - This virus does not discriminate, it infects all! No matter what nationality / age / sex and even the healthiest. Nobody deserves this virus, and we demand for it to be cured ASAP as a cure is long overdue. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/herpescure/ Sign the petition to get as many signatures possible. We need as much exposure as possible. Copy and paste the link around.Flag
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Name: Chelsea Williams on Dec 9, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: E. Pope on Jan 3, 2011Comments: Outrageous!!!!The way this lie is stated. It appears that in 20 million African American women nearly 10 million have herpes. The CDC should be more careful when releasing reports without putting them in proper perspective and referring to the only 1000 who took part in this.Flag
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Name: Wilkine Brutus on Jan 20, 2011Comments: Yes, I agree. The socioeconomic background of the women tested are rarely mentioned. The doesn't just affect black status in America, it spreads outside of America as well.Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Davis on Feb 4, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Sick And Tired on Feb 11, 2011Comments: More lies and garbage to put Black women down and make you hated. Ladies, the media scourge and lies on our good name has been non-stop since the coming of the First Lady of the U.S., Michelle Obama. Unfortunately, if we don't nip it in the bud now, it willonly snowball in the future. Obviously, the CDC is fullof racist liars, or the media chose to report it from their racist perspective.Flag
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Name: Nooffensebut on Mar 6, 2011Comments: I agree that it is not true that 48% have herpes because that is only the statistic for HSV2. If you include the number of black women with herpes caused by HSV1, the percentage would be much greater. Shame on the CDC for not making that clear!Flag
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Name: Jennifer Cobb on Mar 6, 2011Comments: Misleading and racist "studies" like this against Black people have been going on for too long and need to stop.Flag
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Name: Josiah Fuller on Mar 8, 2011Comments:Flag
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