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Chlamydia is at epidemic level because you can have it and transmit it without knowing; because improved programs for screening mean better case finding; and because people have more sexual partners than they did 50 years ago.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoIt's easy to spread chlamydia because it's very contagious, and because most women and many men have it without having symptoms. Since they don't know they have it, they can spread it without knowing that anything is wrong.
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∙ 10y agoChlamydia is easily spread because patients can be infected and transmit the disease without having any symptoms and without knowing they're infected.
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Can you get chlamydia from sweat?
Sweat does not carry chlamydia and can't transmit chlamydia.
Is it easier to transmit chlamydia or HIV?
It is easier to pass chlamydia.
Can you get chlamydia from a parakeet?
Birds don't get or transmit chlamydia trachomatis, the germ that causes the sexually transmitted infection. Birds may transmit chlamydia psittaci, which is not sexually transmitted.
How much contact must you have to get chlamydia?
Minimal genital-genital contact can transmit chlamydia. Use a condom before oral, anal, or vaginal sex or genital-genital contact.
Can you transfer chlamydia conjunctivitis from your eyes to your own or someone else's genitals?
Yes; it is possible to transmit in this manner.
Can you transmit chlamydia if you have no symptoms and use a condom?
You can pass chlamydia even with a condom, even if you don't have symptoms. Abstain from sex until seven days after the last partner completed treatment.
Can you transmit chlamydia via the eye when it's infected?
If someone rubbed their finger in your eye and then rubbed their eye, then yes.
What can happen when chlamydia is getting treated?
An antibiotic must be taken to get rid of the chlamydia infection. Symptoms may disappear for a while, but they will return.
What was the disease that the one guy got in the movie easy a?
chlamydia!
Can you transmit chlamydia from hand to mouth?
Chlamydia can be transmitted through vaginal, anal, or oral sex with an infected partner. Chlamydia is spread by coming in contact with the dischargeIt is certainly possible, but highly unlikely.You can not get Chlamydia if someone had it but they only touched you.
Can you cure chlamydia during the incubation period?
Yes, when you are getting treated you can still transmit chlamydia. Patients being treated should avoid oral, anal, and vaginal intercourse (even with a condom) until seven days after single-dose treatment, or until seven-day treatment is complete.
Does the chlamydia cell have a nucleus?
Chlamydia is a bacterium, and so it has a nucleus.
