Transcript eight sexually transmitted diseases

EIGHT SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED DISEASES
Summary of STDS
GONORRHEA
• Caused by bacteria
• Female symptoms include vaginal discharge,
lower abdominal pain, and painful urination
• Male symptoms include pus discharge from
penis, and painful urination
• Problems caused by disease include sterility,
repeated pelvic infections, damage to
newborns.
• Curable with proper treatment
• 700,000 new cases each year
CHLAMYDIA
• Caused by bacteria
• No symptoms in 60-80% of women, some have
vaginal discharge, painful urination, bleeding
between periods
• No symptoms for 20-40% of men, painful urination,
watery discharge from penis
• Problems caused by disease include infertility in
men and women, eye and lung infections in newborns
• Curable with proper treatment
• 2.8 million new cases each year.
GENITAL HERPES
• Caused by virus
• Symptoms are one or more blister-like sores
on, in or around the genitals. Sores may look
like a rash or cut and is not always painful.
Symptoms go away.
• Can cause severe damage to infants of
mothers with active infections at the time of
delivery
• Can be treated but not cured. Repeated
flare ups may occur after the first infection.
• 45 million cases, 1 of every 5 people
SYPHILIS
• Caused by bacteria
• Symptoms include a sore, usually painless. Later a
rash may develop on other parts of the body,
usually the hands and feet. There may also be a
sore throat, fever, swollen glands. Symptoms may
disappear.
• Problems caused by disease include heart, spine,
and brain infection. Severe threat to developing
fetus.
• Detected by simple blood test. Cured with
antibiotics
• 32,000 reported cases each year
HEPATITIS B
• Caused by a virus
• Symptoms vary greatly. Some
people have no symptoms. Others
experience loss of appetite, fever,
tiredness, pain in liver area,
jaundice, liver cancer.
• A vaccine is available to prevent
Hepatitis B.
• 60,000 new infections each year
AIDS
• Caused by a virus
• Early symptoms include recurring fever, night
sweats, shortness of breath, dry coughs, tiredness,
diarrhea, rapid weight loss loss, swollen glands or
increase in illnesses.
• AIDS is caused by a virus that can be transferred
during sexual contact or sharing needles.
• No cure has been found. Fatal in more than 50% of
the cases.
• 40,000 new cases each year.
HUMAN PAPILLOMA
VIRUS (Genital Warts)
• Caused by a virus
• Symptoms include warts found on or around
genitals or rectum. Must be treated by a
doctor.
• Problems include warts that grow large and
block the penis, vagina, or anus.
• HPV has been strongly linked to the
development of genital cancers.
• 6.2 million new cases each year.
TRICHOMONIASIS
• Caused by protozoan
• Symptoms for women include severe vaginal
itching, heavy vaginal discharge, often
yellowish green, with strong smell.
• Symptoms for men is frequently none,
occasionally a discharge from the penis.
• Partners may pass this disease back and
forth leading to repeated infections.
• Curable, but both partners must be treated.
• Affects 7.4 million Americans every year