Chlamydia is the most commonly reported STD in the United States today.

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Carlos Zamora

Edison Yagoubian

Biology I Honors

13 May 2012

Chlamydia

Chlamydia has grown to become a very harmful STD over the span of its lifetime. Chlamydia is the most commonly reported STD in the United States today. It is also extremely recommended for sexually active women to be screened for Chlamydia every year. Although Chlamydia is easily curable, if left untreated, Chlamydia can impact a women's ability to have children. There are an approximately 2.8 million new cases of Chlamydia in the United States each year. What is shocking is that in 2008, only 1,210,523 cases of Chlamydia infections were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which leaves the rest untreated.

The only way to conceive such infection is through oral, vaginal, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner. Chlamydia bacteria can live in vaginal fluid and semen. The reason that there are so many cases left unreported is that about 70 percent of chlamydial infections have no symptoms what so ever, thereby naming it the "silent" disease. If you do happen to be infected, symptoms will usually appear in 1 to 3 weeks. Some symptoms