d Kranz 31). This is so because both the penis and the vagina have discharges that contains gonococci, which infect any moist, warm surface. Sterility in both men and women can occur if the disease is not treated early enough. “Transmission of the gonococcus is almost wholly by sexual intercourse and survival of the organism depends entirely on sexual promiscuity” (Brown et al. 85). The most common and fairly new STD in America is Chlamydia. This disease is only approximately twenty-five years old, but spreads faster than any other STD. “About one-fourth of all men and one-half of all women who have it do not have any way of knowing about it unless they get tested for it” (Brodman, Thacker, and Kranz 26). Its infectious agent is called Chlamydia trachmatis, a bacteria. Symptoms may include yellow or mucous-like discharge from the vagina or penis. Men and women are infected differently as with Gonorrhea. Most women will be infected in the cervix, “…they don’t have any visible symptoms and may easily infect men through contact between the penis and the cervix” (Brodman, Thacker, and Kranz 27). Women might also get PID with chlamydia, just one bad infection increase damage to her fallopian tubes by twelve percent, which can lead to permanent sterility. A second serious infection increases her infertility by forty percent, and a third infection by eighty percent. A man will usually get infected in his urethra, causing to have abnormal discharge, and pain while urinating. More serious symptoms with men are arthritis and inflammation of the eyes. On the other hand, chlamydia can be treated with antibiotics. The female gender has recently created a high rate in sexually transmitted diseases. Women are generally at higher risk because the efficiency of male-to-female transmission of STD is greater than female-to-male. The increase of the incidence of STDs has caused a great con...
