Teenage trouble.

• Position: STATELINE - National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey on sexually transmitted disease in teenage girls - Brief article

A quarter of all teenage girls are infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Nearly half the African-Americans and 20 percent of the whites in the study of girls between the ages of 14 and 19 were infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, genital herpes or trichomoniasis, a...