More likely to get STI in Alaska and not in New Hampshire
Alaska is known for its mountains and wildlife.
But did you know it is also the 'most sexually disease state' in America?
That is according to a new study which has compiled a comprehensive map of sexually-transmitted infections state-by-state.
Taking the top spot, Alaska has 151.1 cases of gonorrhea per 100,000 residents and a chlamydia rate of 768.3 per 100,000 people, according to a new report.
Rounding out the top five worst states were: Louisiana, North Carolina, Mississippi and New Mexico.
On the opposite end of the spectrum fell New Hampshire as the 'least diseased state', with just 18.5 cases of gonorrhea per 100,000 residents and a chlamydia rate of 233.3 per 100,000 people.
Following closely behind were: West Virginia, Maine, Vermont and Utah.
A new map shows Alaska to be the state where you're most likely to catch an STD and New Hampshire to be the least likely state
TOP 25 STATES WITH THE MOST STDS... 1. Alaska 2. Louisiana 3. North Carolina 4. Mississippi 5. New Mexico 6. South Carolina 7. Georgia 8. Oklahoma 9. Arkansas 10. Alabama 11. Illinois 12. Texas 13. New York 14. Delaware 15. Ohio 16. California 17. Missouri 18. Tennessee 1.9 Arizona 20. Hawaii 21. South Dakota 22. Nevada 23. Michigan 24. Maryland 25. Florida
...AND THE 25 STATES WITH THE FEWEST 26. Indiana 27. Colorado 28. Virginia 29. North Dakota 30. Pennsylvania 31. Wisconsin 32. Nebraska 33. Washington 34. Rhode Island 35. Kentucky 36. Oregon 37. Montana 38. Kansas 39. Minnesota 40. Iowa 41. New Jersey 42. Connecticut 43. Massachusetts 44. Wyoming 45. Idaho 46. Utah 47. Vermont 48. Maine 49. West Virginia 50. New Hampshire
The new report, compiled by Backgroundchecks.com, used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state and county health information and social media surveys.
In the era of Tinder, Grindr, and other dating sites, casual hookups are an all-time high.
And in November 2016, the CDC announced the total combined cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reported in 2015 had reached their highest ever.
There were more than 1.5 million chlamydia cases reported, nearly 400,000 cases of gonorrhea and nearly 24,000 cases of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis – the most infectious stages of the disease.
With the information came the warning that the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is developing resistance to the antibiotic drugs used to treat it.
Men who have sex with men accounted for the majority of new gonorrhea and P&S syphilis cases.
And women's rates of syphilis diagnosis increased by more than 27 percent from 2014 to 2015 - although women still make up less than 10 percent of new P&S cases.
Reported congenital syphilis, which occurs when the infection is transmitted from a pregnant woman to her baby, increased by six percent.
People between ages 15 and 24 accounted for nearly two-thirds of new chlamydia diagnoses and half of all gonorrhea cases, according to the 2015 data.
'We have reached a decisive moment for the nation,' Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said in a statement.
'STD rates are rising, and many of the country's systems for preventing STDs have eroded. We must mobilize, rebuild and expand services – or the human and economic burden will continue to grow.'
Approximately 20 million new STD infections occur each year and the cost to the US healthcare system is estimated to be as much as $16 billion annually.
To address the recent STD upsurge, Dr Gail Bolan, director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention, has recommended improvement of the surveillance systems that collect data on new STD cases and that people with new diagnoses should be provided access to treatment.
Additionally, she added that the importance of continuing to study and monitor the adverse health complications of STDs, which include the risk of infertility and a greater vulnerability for HIV, among other health effects.
'It is my hope that a decade from now, we will be reporting on progress, instead of more health inequity in our society,' Dr Bolan wrote in a statement.