Thanks for Letting Us Down Dave

No this is not a shot at Mr. Letterman.

Uncle Bob has a friend also named Dave whom lives in St. Louis. For the sake of his privacy Uncle Bob won't reveal his last name. But it rhymes with Erndon.

Each year roughly at this time there is a Big City announcement and since Dave moved back to ST. Louis, the City has been #1. Yea City.
But not now, sadly, the news today...

St. Louis has relinquished its title as the sexually transmitted disease capital, dropping to number two in the country for rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia. For several years the city’s disease rates topped the country.

St. Louis has a chlamydia rate of 1,225 cases per 100,000 residents. Baltimore has a higher rate, at 1,321. With gonorrhea, St. Louis’ rate is 539 cases per 100,000 residents. Richmond, Va. has the highest rate at 639.

The city ranks 16th for syphilis rates, same as last year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There were 94 fewer cases of chlamydia and 387 fewer cases of gonorrhea in the city in 2008 compared to 2007.

Dave, I know you're getting older and travel quite a bit. But where's the pride Man? Buck up, as it were. Get out there and, um, take one for the City.

HipHip Horray...