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Rates among teenagers of sexually transmitted diseases are reaching epidemic levels

Four sets of locked doors slam shut behind Meghan Benson as she marches into the Dane County Juvenile Detention Center lugging a plastic storage container. Teens in maroon jumpsuits wave. Benson is a Thursday night regular. She is here to fight an epidemic that will infect more young people at the center and the rest of Wisconsin than H1N1, and Benson is one of the few people willing to take it on openly.

Quoted: Linda Denise Oakley, a professor of nursing at UW-Madison and a psychiatric nurse practitioner who counsels young adults at risk for sexually transmitted diseases