Are Apps Like Tinder And Grindr Fueling A Rise In STDs?
Public health officials in states across the country are blaming dating apps like Tinder and Grindr for contributing to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases.
In Utah, gonorrhea infections are up 714 percent among women since 2011 and up almost 300 percent among men. In Rhode Island, syphilis cases have grown by 79 percent and new HIV infections have increased by almost 33 percent.
We talked with Lynn Beltran, an epidemiology supervisor in the Infectious Disease Bureau in the Salt Lake County Health Department, and Tom Bertrand, chief of the Office of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB in the Rhode Island Department of Health. Hear/read our conversation with them here.
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