eli5: Why did we go from calling sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to sexually transmitted infections (STIs)?

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eli5: Why did we go from calling sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to sexually transmitted infections (STIs)?

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If you have something like HPV or herpes virus in your body, but you don’t have any symptoms, then you have an infection but not a disease.

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