Instructions: Generate an explanation for the given claim using the provided supporting material from the paragraph. Please consider the following points while generating an output. 1) The claim will always have supporting proof in the paragraph, and the paragraph will have a clear point of view supporting the claim. 2) There can be instances where direct correlation to the claim is not available. Make use of the sentences in the paragraph to provide a corresponding output supporting the claim. 3) The explanation should be at least one and at most twelve sentences long.
Input: Paragraph: NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reported Tuesday that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Louisiana has the second-highest rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. The CDC's 2016 STD Surveillance Report was released in late September. Louisiana had roughly 16 syphilis cases per 100,000 people. Gail Bolan with the CDC said that babies born with syphilis represent a systems failure as "all it takes is a simple STD test and antibiotic treatment to prevent this enormous heartache." Louisiana's chlamydia rate was nearly 680 cases per 100,000 people. Gonorrhea was around 230 cases per 100,000. A CDC report released last year said Louisiana had the second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses. ___ Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com Claim: Louisiana ranks 2nd for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis rates.
Output:
Sexually transmitted diseases have increased across the U.S. for a third consecutive year and Louisiana ranked second-highest for each of the three STDs measured.