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Chlamydia is the most frequently reported bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the United States. In 2006, 1,030,911 chlamydial infections were reported to CDC from 50 states and the District of Columbia. Under-reporting is substantial because most people with chlamydia are not aware of their infections and do not seek testing. Also, testing is not often done if patients are treated for their symptoms. An estimated 2,291,000 non-institutionalized U.S. civilians ages 14-39 are infected with Chlamydia based on the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Women are frequently re-infected if their sex partners are not treated.
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Chlamydia is the most frequently reported bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the United States. In 2002, 834,555 chlamydial infections were reported to CDC from 50 states and the District of Columbia. Under-reporting is substantial because most people with chlamydia are not aware of their infections and do not seek testing. Also, testing is not often done if patients are treated for their symptoms. An estimated 2.8 million Americans are infected with chlamydia each year. Women are frequently re-infected if their sex partners are not treated.
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Chlamydia, like many STDs, often has no symptoms. Only about 1 out of 4 women with chlamydia have ANY signs of the disease. About half of men with the disease have symptoms. These people can spread the disease to others, even though they don’t know they have it. Chlamydia can do serious, irreversible damage to a person’s reproductive system without him or her feeling a thing. After some months or years may experience serious complications and only then find out that they have chlamydia.
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Of women with Pelvic inflammatory Disease caused by the Chlamydia infection, 9% will have a life-threatening tubal (ectopic pregnancy). Tubal pregnancy is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women
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In addition, The National Chlamydia Screening Programme in England offers free tests to men and women under 25 who have ever been sexually active. Under this programme tests are ... available from places such as colleges, youth clubs, military bases, some pharmacies and other places which are convenient for young people to use. The screening programme is usually advertised locally.
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Chlamydia is easily cured if detected early and in uncomplicated cases the cure rate is 95%. It is usually treated with antibiotics such as tetracycline or doxycycline. Pregnant women should not be treated with tetracycline, but rather with erythromycin. Babies born to women with chlamydia will be treated with eye drops at birth. These eye drops contain antibiotics that should prevent further complications.
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