Almería, Spain, records 666 chlamydia cases in 2025, an all-time high
Almería reported 1,195 STIs in 2025, including 666 chlamydia cases. The record fuels the debate over prevention and public health.
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Almería ends 2025 with 1,195 STIs and a record number of chlamydia cases
Official data from the Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía (IECA, Andalusia's statistics institute) confirm what health services had already suspected: Almería has become a hotspot for sensual transmitted infections. During 2025, 1,195 cases were reported, an unprecedented figure for the province. Chlamydia dominates the count with 666 diagnoses, trinc by gonorrhoea (311) and syphilis (180). This is not just an increase: it is a jump that institutional reports fail to explain.
The number 666, with its inevitable symbolic charge, spread like wildfire on social media. Beyond the jokes, the figure raises the question of why an infection that is easily prevented with condoms keeps growing in the 21st century. The causes being floated in public debate range from relaxed habits after the pandemic to the activity of sens clubs on the Almería coast, a sector that has historically operated with little health oversight. Some also attribute it to the arrival of migrant populations, a hypothesis that so far appears in no epidemiological record.
Faced with administrative silence, the next step is to watch the 2026 figures. Almería needs more than generic condom messages: it needs to understand where infections are happening and why early detection programmes are not curbing the curve. For now, the numbers speak for themselves. The question is whether anyone in the Junta de Andalucía (the regional government of Andalusia) will answer.
Official data from the Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía (IECA, Andalusia's statistics institute) confirm what health services had already suspected: Almería has become a hotspot for sensual transmitted infections. During 2025, 1,195 cases were reported, an unprecedented figure for the province. Chlamydia dominates the count with 666 diagnoses, trinc by gonorrhoea (311) and syphilis (180). This is not just an increase: it is a jump that institutional reports fail to explain.
The number 666, with its inevitable symbolic charge, spread like wildfire on social media. Beyond the jokes, the figure raises the question of why an infection that is easily prevented with condoms keeps growing in the 21st century. The causes being floated in public debate range from relaxed habits after the pandemic to the activity of sens clubs on the Almería coast, a sector that has historically operated with little health oversight. Some also attribute it to the arrival of migrant populations, a hypothesis that so far appears in no epidemiological record.
Faced with administrative silence, the next step is to watch the 2026 figures. Almería needs more than generic condom messages: it needs to understand where infections are happening and why early detection programmes are not curbing the curve. For now, the numbers speak for themselves. The question is whether anyone in the Junta de Andalucía (the regional government of Andalusia) will answer.
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