contact. Some can also be transmitted by non-sexual ways, but these make up a minority of the total number of cases. An estimated ten to twelve

million Americans have sexually transmitted diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases in the United States affect both sexes, all races, and every

economic stature. STD's come from different sources. Some are epidemic like gonorrhea, infections of the urethra, genital herpes, and genital

warts. Some diseases are caused by a bacterium such as Chlamydia, and others are from protozoan or yeast. Many of these infections are

transmitted largely by sexual contact with an infected person. The practice of anal and oral sex also lead to cases of anal and oral infections.

Gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydial infections can also be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her infant, either in the uterus or during birth.

Sexually transmitted diseases are very hard to control. Some public officials attribute the increase in many of these diseases to increasing sexual

transmitted more efficiently from men to women than the reverse, perhaps because the vagina serves as a reservoir that prolongs exposure to

lead to heart disease, nerve disorders, brain damage, mental disorders, blindness, and death. There are six symptoms that an infected person with

includes the face, head, hands, lower arms, lower trunk, pubic area, thighs, mouth and throat. Also checked in men are the genitals and the pubic

CD4 T-cell count, these are the major types of white blood cell lost during the HIV infection. The lower the person's CD4 T-cell count, the more

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perineum and anus, speculum examination of the vaginal mucosa and cervix, and a bimanual pelvic examination (Handsfield 4)." A way to avoid

or itching around the opening of the penis, pain in the testicles, pain when urinating, unusual vaginal bleeding, and bleeding after sex. If a woman

with Chlamydia is pregnant and she is not treated, her baby has a 50-50 chance of developing conjunctivitis, which is an inflammation of the eyes

symptoms. There are no symptoms for this disease so people are not aware that they have a problem until they develop complications. In women

person may have CD4 T-cell levels below 200 per mm3. Next comes a stage of ongoing weight loss and fatigue. The immune system fails and the

infected person's CD4 T-cell count falls briefly but then returns close to normal and the person's immune system responds to the infection and

treated. It is caused by a bacterium called Treponema pallidum. This bacterium is found in sores and rashes that occur anywhere on the skin or

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