Back in March, media outlets began cranking out breathless headlines about a CDC report claiming “one in four” teenage girls had an STD. Of course, the statistic just wasn’t true though the media ran with it for months afterwards. Now, via my wife, I see that FoxNews.com is reporting the following:

A Pennsylvania school district has such a high number of students with sexually transmitted diseases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stepped in to track down students at risk for HIV.
It’s estimated that 10 percent of the 3,000 middle and high school students in the Delaware Valley School District in Milford, P.A., are infected with an STD — including one confirmed case of HIV, Times Herald Record reported Friday.

Now why would the CDC be sweeping in considering the high school’s below average the STD infection rates? Could it be that the original report was misleading and sensational and the media failed to do due diligence in reporting the study’s results? Yes and yes.