West Texas school chlamydia outbreak may never have happened

State health officials tell the Guardian that they do not know where figure that 20 students had sexually transmitted infection came from

A West Texas high school that supposedly had an “epidemic” chlamydia outbreak may have never had an outbreak at all - despite widespread coverage of the story.

The superintendent of tiny Crane independent school district in west Texas told a local news outlet that as many as 20 students out of Crane high school’s 300 had the sexually transmitted infection, and that the district may consider a new sexual education program as a result. The district currently teaches abstinence-only sex education, over a three-day course in the fall.

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