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This year's report published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not looking very good. The number of cases reported for gonorrhea and chlamydia have witnessed a dramatic increase in the United States between the years 2013 and 2014. The numbers have seen a sudden surge after a trend of decline for so many years. Even the syphilis cases have been at an all time high since 2014. Chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea are amongst the most dangerous STDs in the United States. The state departments are mandated to report any new cases of these diseases to the CDC. Chlamydia, the most common STD, is so dangerous that it can permanently damage a woman's reproductive system. According to a report in 2014, there were more than 1.4 million cases of chlamydia reported. There were nearly 20,000 cases of syphilis, a condition that if left untreated can cause serious complications and in some cases even blindness, reports CDC

Dr. Gail Bolan, Director of CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and lead author of the report submitted to CDC said, "This is a bare minimum of the number of infections occurring in the U.S." He also added, "There could be many cases that went undiagnosed because the infections did not cause symptoms, which is typical of chlamydia and gonorrhea, and because people did not have access to health care or their providers did not test them", as reported CNN.

According to Hayley Mark, associate professor of community-public health at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, "Syphilis is a continuing trend among men who have sex with men, and it's really a crisis in this group." She added, "One thing that is very new in this report is the increase in syphilis among women," says WIVB