-Rarely, you can get chlamydia by touching your eye if you have infected fluids on your hand.

-Chlamydia can also be spread to a baby during birth if the mother has it.

-The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis is the pathogen that causes chlamydia

-Anyone can get chlamydia. It often doesn't cause symptoms, so people may not know that they have it.

-In women, a common symptom is unusual vaginal discharge.

-Another symptom women can have is pain during sexual intercourse.

-In men, a common symptom is white cloudy discharge from the tip of the penis.

-Men can also experience testicular pain.

-Newborns can receive eye inflammation (conjunctivitis).

-They can contract pneumonia.

-A very serious symptom they can have is nasopharynx.

-These symptoms usually appear 5-12 days after delivery.

-This STI causes infertility by creating scar tissue in the fallopian tubes, not allowing fertilization to occur.

- It can lead to long term pelvic or abdominal pain.

-It can cause fatal ectopic pregnancies.

-It can increase chances of contracting HIV.

-The two most common antibiotics used to treat chlamydia are doxycycline and azithromycin

-You should get tested again for chlamydia about three months after finishing treatment. 

-Antibiotics can't repair any permanent damage caused by chlamydia. 

-You should wait 7 days after taking the antibiotics before having sex again, or until you've finished the entire course of medication and your symptoms are gone. 

-Having multiple sex partners increases the risk of contracting chlamydia.

-Taking the antibiotic doxycycline within 72 hours after sex can help reduce the chances of getting chlamydia. This strategy is called doxy PEP.

-If you're pregnant and test positive for chlamydia, you can get prompt treatment to prevent passing the infection to your baby. 

-If you're diagnosed with chlamydia, you should tell recent sexual partners so they can get tested.

-St. Louis City, MO: Has a rate of 1,224.0 chlamydia cases per 100,000 residents

-Richland County, SC: Has a rate of 1,320.5 chlamydia cases per 100,000 residents

-Norfolk City, VA: Has a rate of 1,272.1 chlamydia cases per 100,000 residents

-Memphis, TN: A top city for chlamydia

-In women aged 15 to 44, the mortality rate from chlamydia and other infections was less than 0.1 deaths per 100,000 women.

-While it is possible to die from, it is very rare and always treatable.

-It could be fatal for newborns.

-Women can die from ectopic pregnancies, leading to their deaths.

-German dermatologist Ludwig Halberstädter and Austrian bacteriologist Stanislaus von Prowazek found the disease.

-They observed it in conjunctival scrapings from an experimentally infected orangutan.

-In the last hundred years the detection and study of the intracellular pathogens, including chlamydiae, passed through an enormous evolution.

-Thinking they had discovered a "mantled protozoan", they named the organism "Chlamydozoa" from the Greek "Chlamys" meaning mantle.

-It infects almost 3 million Americans every year.

-The incubation from infection to first symptoms is one to three weeks.

-Most people with chlamydia don't have any symptoms, which is why it's sometimes called the "silent infection".

-Young Sexually Active Women Are Most Susceptible.