Word: chlamydia
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College students are inundated with warnings about HIV and chlamydia, but one common and potentially life-threatening sexually transmitted disease (STD) goes largely unnoticed...
...mostly, we were bored. We paced in our sweat suits from formation to formation and chow line to chow line, getting an errand done here and there and enjoying the occasionally "serious" outing (try putting two platoons in a classroom for a chlamydia lecture and then telling them to be quiet). We weren't allowed to run it off - there were no drill sergeants who would supervise us, and we might get hurt out there. We were government property now, after all. Meanwhile chow at 05:30, chow at 11:00. Chow at 16:30. Full, free meals...
...report also says that from January to September of this year there were 19 cases of chlamydia and 3 cases of HIV on campus among students and employees. The report did not have 1998 figures for those two diseases...
Last spring, The Crimson published a series of articles which reported an alarming increase in the number of chlamydia cases treated at University Health Services (UHS) in the first three months of 1998. This prevalence rate exceeded the figure provided for the greater Boston area by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. With over 60 percent of students on campus reporting sexual activity (Aids Education & Outreach survey, Fall 1998), the response to this report was surprisingly muffled...
...with an STI each day. At least one in four Americans will contract an STI some time in their lives. Some viral STIs including genital herpes and genital warts can be transmitted via skin-to-skin contact, and are incurable. In up to 75 percent of individuals infected with chlamydia (the most common STI on college campuses), gonorrhea, and/or other bacterial infection, symptoms never appear. However, if left untreated, these infection often lead to complications such as sterility, cervical cancer, and/or pelvic inflammatory disease. STI infection should be of particular concern to sexually active women, as infection are more easily...