Sexually transmitted disease
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A sexually transmitted disease is a disease which generally spreads by sexual intercourse, including oral sex or anal sex. "Sexually transmitted disease" is usually written as STD for short. STDs can also be called sexually transmitted infections (STIs), or venereal diseases (VD). It is more accurate to call sexually transmitted diseases sexually transmissible diseases. This is because some of them spread in other ways, too. For example, you can get HIV from using a hypodermic needle that someone else already used, if that other person has HIV.
There are two ways that sex can send a disease from one person to another person:
