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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
The billboards feature a menacing iceberg, sinking ship and an all-caps message: GONORRHEA ALERT! What do an iceberg and sinking ship have to do with a sexually transmitted disease? It's not immediately clear, but the billboards on Boren Avenue and near the Space Needle likely caught your eye. And that's the point. “There is a sense of desensitization when it comes to STIs (sexually transmitted infections), and billboards go a long way toward someone Googling something or scheduling something with a provider,” said Marcelino Alcorta, of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “There's also value in as…
