JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – If you gathered 100 Mississippians in a room, statistically, at least 1 of them has an STD.
The STD rate, depending on your source, is around 1,200 per 100,000 Mississippian, or 1 per every 100. The state has long been plagued by high rates of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV.
In years prior, Hinds County had the dishonor of having the highest STD rate of any county in the country…