CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE

CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE

–LEADS TO STERILITY

One hundred thousand women a year are becoming sterile from NGU (nongonococcal urethritis), an inflammation of the urinary tube commonly called Chlamydia.

It infects some 3 to 10 million Americans each year, making it far more widespread than either gonorrhea or genital herpes, and the most significant sexually transmitted disease in American medicine.

Chlamydia organisms are parasites that live and reproduce inside cells. One to three weeks after exposure, a man might develop penile discharge, painful urination, and frequent need to urinate. In women symptoms can include vaginal discharge, lower abdominal discomfort and painful urination. Many times before any acute symptoms show up, sterility might already have occurred.

The press should make the general public more aware of the widespread nature of Chlamydia and that there is now a new test which is faster and more accurate than the old tissue culture test.

Sources were Albuquerque Singles, September, 1984, and The New York Times, 6/5/84. It was the 19^th top censored story of 1984.

RECORD NUMBER OF CHLAMYDIA CASES

The Associated Press reported on 11/17/2009 that “Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported Chlamydia cases setting a record in 2008, health officials said.

“Last year there were 1.2 million cases of Chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to infertility in women, up from the old record of 1.1 million cases in 2007.”

are condemned to repeat it!

–George Santayana