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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Answer 1

Because infections don’t necessarily cause disease, and often times disease only happens some time after the infection. A person can be infected with herpes and not see symptoms for months, years, or maybe never at all.

Also, HIV is an infection not a disease. The disease it causes is called AIDS