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STI's
- Cytomegalovirus
- stats: 4 out of every 10 Americans get CMV by the time
they reach puberty
- symptoms: Sometimes swollen glands, fatigue, fever, irritation of the
digestive tract, nausea, diarrhea, and jaundice.
- Treatment: no cure
- Complications: can also be passed from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby
- How transmitted: in body fluids, such as urine, saliva, blood, tears, semen, and breast
milk
- viral
- hepatitis
- stats: Around 300,000 to 700,000 people infected in the U.S.
- symptoms:extreme fatigue, tenderness and pain in the
lower abdomen, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting.
- Complications: 1 out of 5 people with chronic
HBV die from the infection.
- Treatment:No cure – in most cases of Hep-A, hepatitis goes away by itself.
- How transmitted: consuming contaminated
food or sharing dirty hypodermic needles.
- Herpes
- How transmitted:aginal sex and anal sex.
- stats:About 8 of every 10 adults has oral herpes and 1 of
every 4 adults has genital herpes
- symptoms:cluster of blistery sores
- Complications:contact with herpes sores during delivery can
lead to a severe, life-threatening infection for the baby.
- Treatment:No cure – managed with medicine
- HIV
- How transmitted:blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal
fluids, and breast milk.
- symptoms: wollen glands in the throat, armpit, or groin
- stats: more than 980,000 cases of AIDS have been reported to the
government. Around 48,000 people infected in the U.S. annually
- Symptoms: aids
- Treatment: No cure – managed with medicine
- Bacterial
- Chancroid
- how transmitted: sexual contact with an infected individual
- stats:Around 100 people infected in the U.S. annually
- symptoms: Open genital sores, may produce pus, may be painful,
swollen glands in the groin.
- Complications: none
- treatment: Antibiotics
- Chlamydia
- how transmitted: vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone
who has chlamydia.
- stats: Around 3 million people infected in the
U.S. annually
- symptoms: Sometimes abdominal pain,
abnormal discharge, fever, bleeding
between periods
- Complications: untreated, it can become a serious threat – leading to pelvic
inflammatory disease, infertility and sterility,
- treatment: Antibiotics
- Gonorrhea
- how transmitted:sexual contact
- stats: Around 600,000-700,000 people infected in the U.S. annually
- symptoms: abdominal pain, bleeding between periods, fever, painful intercourse, painful urination
- Complications: untreated, it can be a serious health risk causing infertility,
arthritis, pelvic inflammatory disease
- Treatment: Antibiotics
- Syphilis
- how transmitted: vaginal, anal, or oral sex.
- stats: Around 30,000-40,000 people infected in the U.S. annually
- symptoms: painless sore, wet ulcer and Body rashes
- Complications: one out of three people who have syphilis that is not treated
suffer serious damage to the nervous system, heart, brain, or other organs,
and death may result
- Treatment: Antibiotic