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Updated Tuesday, July 1, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

Sex diseases among British over 45 years old rocket

LONDON -- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Britons aged over 45 has more than doubled in less than a decade with Internet dating and drugs that counter erectile dysfunction partly to blame, a report said on Monday. Researchers from the government’s Health Protection Agency looked at the number of patients visiting 19 sexual health clinics in central England between 1996 and 2003.

Although the vast majority of the patients were young, they found that in 1996, 344 people over 45 were diagnosed with an STI. By 2003, that number had risen to 780.

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