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Mississippi’s going through a bumpy time lately, and it’s not because of the heat -- turns out, the state is facing a major STD outbreak!

The Southern state, already struggling with sky-high rates of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV, has just dropped a jaw-dropping stat -- roughly 1,200 cases per 100,000 people. To put that into perspective, that’s at least one person in a room of 100 Mississippians walking around with a sexually transmitted disease or infection. Yikes. Getty

The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report is now officially raising red flags -- specifically, Mississippi’s congenital syphilis rate is spiraling so wildly out of control, it’s officially been declared an epidemic . Getty

According to the 2023 report -- with the latest availa

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