What's the most Googled health issue in Illinois?

Friday, July 6, 2018
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinoisans search for many things online, but what was the most Googled health issue? Syphilis.

The sexually transmitted disease was the number one health issue Googled in Illinois according to a June 27 article in Becker's Hospital Review.
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More than 2 million Americans were diagnosed with STD's in 2016.

Patients may have typed in syphilis, but chances are they have something else. In the Chicago suburbs, chlamydia was diagnosed 55-percent more often than syphilis.
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Doctors urge anyone who is sexually active to get tested.
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