Summary:
Chlamydia trachomatis is a common sexually transmitted disease. This bacteria can infect both men and women, and is spread by having sex. Symptoms of this infection may range from none to severe if not treated. Chlamydia can be treated with antibiotics but will not repair any damage that has been caused. 
Description:
Chlamydia is a pretty common STD in both men and women. Chlamydia can affect the vagina, penis, throat, and the anus. Many people can go weeks without knowing they are infected because they aren’t showing any symptoms, which is why is as known as the ‘silent’ infection. Symptoms may include abnormal discharge, painful urination. Chlamydia can be prevented with abstinence, and also the correct use of a condom may eliminate ones risk.
Complications of Chlamydia can be severe if not treated properly in time. For women if they are not treated could develop pelvic inflammatory disease. This disease often leads to damage of the reproductive system which can cause infertility and ectopic pregnancy. Both men and woman may develop reactive arthritis. If a woman give birth while they have chlamydia they may infect their child. If chlamydia goes untreated it can increase their chance of acquiring HIV. A person will continue to be infected until receiving and finishing treatment.
There are different types of tests that can be done to see if someone has chlamydia. These tests can include cell culture or nucleic acid amplification test. Nucleic acid amplification is the most trusted test which uses a swab sample or a urine sample.
http://fortune.com/2019/03/02/sexually-transmitted-infections-diseases/
This article describes the rise in sexually transmitted infections like Syphilis and Gonorrhea in recent years. If left untreated, these infections can cause blindness, dementia, paralysis, and stillbirths in pregnant mothers. These STIs are also becoming harder to treat as they develop improved antibiotic resistance. Since 2017 alone, cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis jumped from 200,000 reported cases to almost 2.3 million which is a new record. This article reports some of the causes of this jump in STIs to be due to a rise in sexualized drug use, and an increase in unprotected sex with multiple partners.
This article focuses on chlamydia’s effects in Ireland, where it is the most commonly transmitted STD. The author describes how chlamydia doesn’t usually cause many symptoms early on, and it can be treated right away with antibiotics, but the disease can become extremely dangerous if left untreated. When chlamydia is not treated it can spread to other parts of the body and lead to health problems like pelvic inflammatory disease, inflammation of the testicles, occasional arthritis, and infertility. The main argument of this article is that chlamydia must be dealt with early on and as soon as one suspects they might have it or else the effects of the disease can be devastating.
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/charleston-chlamydia-strain-not-based-in-evidence-dhec-says
This article describes the high rate of chlamydia in Charleston, South Carolina. The article addresses a rumor circulating that chlamydia is so prevalent in Charleston that the city has developed its own strain of the disease. This rumor has been denied by DHEC employees that claim there is no indication of a Charleston strain. Regardless, over 90,000 new cases of chlamydia were diagnosed in Charleston between 2015 and 2017. According to DHEC data almost 90 percent of these new chlamydia cases were diagnosed in people between the ages of 18 and 30. The article goes on to suggest the importance of being tested for an STD, and says that the CDC recommends all sexually active women younger than 25 be screened for chlamydia.
References:
“Chlamydia Infection”, Medline Plus;
https://medlineplus.gov/chlamydiainfections.html
“Chlamydia”, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; https://www.cdc.gov/std/chlamydia/stdfact-chlamydia-detailed.htm