Chlamydia reaches epidemic levels
NZPA-Reuter Montreal
The spread of chlamydia, until recently a relatively unknown venereal disease, has reached epidemic proportions and is now the leading cause of women’s infertility in several countries, according to doctors at a World Health Organisation conference.
“It is really an epidemic, there are so many cases,” Pers-Anders Mardh, of the University of Uppsala, Sweden, told NZPA-Reuter.
“Conservatively, we estimate there are between three and five million cases each year in the United States alone,” said King Holmes, of the University of Washington. “It is five times as common as gonorrhoea.” Dr Holmes, one of the main speakers at the World Health Organisationsponsored conference on sexually transmitted disease, said chlamydia was the main cause of infertility in women and tubal pregnancies in the United States.
Dr Mardh, who reported there were 70,000 cases a year in Sweden, said chlamydia had in recent years become “the No. 1 as a cause of infertility” in northern Europe.
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