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Known as the silent epidemic – 61,000,000 people a year are diagnosed with chlamydia. Many have no obvious symptoms until years after being infectedΒ ![]()
Symptoms include inflammation, discharge, bleeding and pain passing urine. Fertility and pregnancy complications are common. It can easily be spread to the eyes and is a common cause of chronic conjunctivitis that eventually leads to blindness
The photo from SOA-AIDS Amsterdam, shows an inflamed cervix infected with chlamydia.
It was first described in the famous Ebers Papyrus of 1550BC β a 20 metre long Egyptian medical scroll β where it was known as the βblinding diseaseβ. It was thought to be a virus until a study through an electron microscope
Β in 1966 proved it to be a bacteriumΒ
Β β one that has survived the fall of civilisations. Be careful out thereΒ ![]()
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