Word: chlamydia
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While the publicity has focused on AIDS during the past few years, several other sexually transmitted diseases are quietly spreading their own net of contagion. Some old scourges, like syphilis, are making comebacks, and more recently recognized infections, such as genital herpes and chlamydia, are moving swiftly through the population. The extent of the epidemics is unknown, since only a fraction of the cases are reported to health officials. Experts think at least 25 STDs strike millions each year, primarily teenagers and young adults...
...CHLAMYDIA. This bacterial infection is insidious because it is frequently symptomless, at least initially. Last year, while only about 150,000 cases were reported, experts think as many as 4 million Americans caught chlamydia, often without knowing it. As many as 45% of sexually active teenagers get the infection. Chlamydia may cause 50% of the cases of pelvic inflammatory disease, which can result in abnormal pregnancies and infertility in women...
During the 1986-87 academic year, University Health Services (UHS) screened approximately 200 women for chlamydia at Harvard, and found levels under five percent, instead of the national average of 15 to 20 percent...
...Chlamydia is a microorganism blamed for what is currently the most prevalent sexually transmitted disease. The disease is characterized by mild initial symptoms of painful urination and discharge among both men and women. In rare cases, protracted infection can lead to sterility...
...sexually active women have taken on the primary responsibility for contraception, mainly by using birth-control pills, diaphragms or IUDs. Now increasing numbers of women are also stocking up on the old-fashioned male condom, both to avoid pregnancy and to protect themselves against rampant sexually transmitted diseases, particularly chlamydia, herpes and AIDS. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research organization based in Manhattan, reports in a new study that the number of unmarried women making use of condoms almost doubled between 1982 and 1987 to 2.2 million, or about 16% of the sexually active, fertile female population. Says...