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Chlamydia

**Chlamydia or Chamydial Infection (CI) is commonly sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the genital or eye area caused by Chlamydia Trachomatis, a bacterium that will only infect humans.**

** How is the STI contracted or spread? ** All sexually active men and women have a chance of being contaminated if in sexual contact with someone with this STI. Chlamydia can be passed through during, Oral, Vaginal, or Anal sex. Chlamydia often doesn't have any symptoms so they pass Chlamydia through to their partner without knowingly. All though a pregant woman can pass Chlamydia through to their child during vaginal birth.

It usually takes 1-3 weeks for Chlamydia to be noticed. Most people don't even have symptoms of Chlamydia. //Women// Men New or unusual discharge from your vagina; Watery or milky “drip” from your penis Swelling in the testicles.
 * What are the visible symptoms of the STI **

Diferent people will have different symptoms, if Chlamydia is noticed it is possible to cure it before it spreads throughout your body. If Chlamydia goes unoticed the symptoms become worse and can be fatal. Most women that are infected with Chlamydia don't have any visible symptoms. If you leave Chlamydia untreated, it can seriously affect your life. (become chronic) //Women// //Men//
 * Are these symptoms of the STI likely to go unoticed until its too late **
 * Develop chronic lower abdominal pain; - Itchiness inside your penis;
 * Become sterile; - Burning feeling while peeing
 * Have a tubal pregnancy - Swollen testicles []

You can have Chlamydia and not even know it, which is why its important to have safe sex by using a condom and if you don't want to, it's important you and your partner to be tested for Chlamydia. Chlamydia,if treated properly, can becured with anti-biotics.
 * is there any treatment(s) of the STI? does it cure the STI, or does it just make the symptoms managable. **

Chlamydia is contracted through sexual intercourse. Younger people (teens) are mostly the people contaminated and usually when people have sex at a young age, it leads to be people being called rude and inappropriate names. If this happens to you there are ways to coop with this stress and bullying by talking to an adult, teacher, guidance counciler, guardian or even calling Kids Help Phone.
 * If the STI is treatable are there any consequences that go with not getting the STI treated? **



Kids Help Phone is a ANONYMOUS, toll free calling line where you can talk to one the people who work there about any of your problems which is open 24 hours to talk about anything on your mind. 1-800-668-6868

It is HIGHLY unlikely for Chlamydia to be fatal, but some cases have led to death with woman from complications with pregnancy. ** Case Study ** . Suzy Jones is a 17 year old, white, female, College Student. She's currently seeking advice about contraception. She's had 2 sex partners in the past 4 months and 3 in the past seven months. She denies vaginal discharge, dyspareunia, genital lesions, or sores, but has noticed slightly irregular period patterns. Suzy Jones' cervix appears inflammed and bleeds very easily.
 * Is the STI fatal? **

//Chlamydia trachomatis test//: positive //Pregnancy test//: negative //HIV antibody test//: negative Four months later Suxy returned for a follw-up chlamydia test and it returned positive, Suzy also tstaed that her partner Michael went in to get treated but his test returned negative. Sexual Partners

JOHN, 5 WEEKS AGO

TOM, 7 MONTHS AGO

MICHAEL, 2 WEEKS AGO

- Approximately 2.3 million people in the USA are currently infected with Chlamydia.- Most Common STD in North America and UK. ( United Kingdom)- In 2010, 1,307,893 chlamydial infections were reported in Canada.
 * Population for STI in different countries **