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Map shows Surrey areas with highest STI rates as students warned to beware
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Surrey Live - News
More infoStudents in Surrey have been warned to wear condoms as infections of a Biblical STI remain dangerously high - and our map reveals how infections have soared across the county.
While the latest data shows an “encouraging” recent decline in rates of gonorrhoea - the ancient sexually transmitted infection (STI) which is referenced in the Bible and early Greek and Roman writing - cases remain high.
The UK Health Security Agency has now warned students not to have unprotected sex during Freshers Week.
The infection rate - used to measure the risk of catching a disease - stood at 124.5 infections per 100,000 people in 2024.
Woking has the next highest rate with 72.6 infections per 100,000 of the population, and then Runnymede (61.9 per 100,000).
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