Chlamydia bacterial infection has obviously gotten worse and more serious in the United States, with a new study claiming that almost 2 million people have this sexually transmitted diseases.
According to an updated report from the researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, scientific figures on the prevalence of chlamydia in both women and men show that 1.8 million people nationwide are suffering from the sexually transmissible disease.
The study, which covers data from 2007 to 2012 only, has found that 1.7 percent of people, ages 14 to 39, has chlamydia infection.
The report further claims that chlamydia in women and men is very common in sexually active people who have had two or more sexual partners within a year, according to My Fox Chicago.
For the chlamydia bacterial infection study, researchers surveyed over 8,000 people and tested their unadulterated urine samples for STDs.
Researchers found that the incidence of having chlamydia is very likely in people with multiple partners; about 3.2 percent of people with two or more sexual partners had contacted the disease as opposed to the 1.4 percent of people who only had one sexual partner.
Moreover, chlamydia in women is at a higher rate compared to the incidence of the infection in men - 2 percent in women versus 1.4 percent in men.
The research team even noted that young women had the significantly higher rate of infection. Among sexually active women ages 14 to 24, 4.7 percent has chlamydia bacterial infection. Among young black females, the prevalence of the disease reached an alarming 13.5 percent compared to the 1.8 percent incidence rate in white females, FOX News has learned.
CDC now suggests that sexually active women younger than 25 should undergo chlamydia screening since only quite a few do so yearly.
Chlamydia screening tests are also advised for older women who have multiple sex partners and for men who participate in anal sex.
"Clinicians should routinely screen young women and men who have sex with men for chlamydia and ensure that infected patients and their sex partners receive timely treatment to prevent reinfection," the report noted.
Chlamydia is a bacterial infection that is considered as the most commonly transmitted STD in the United States as of late. Though symptoms are not always present, if left untreated, the infection could get worse and lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility and even ectopic pregnancy in women.
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