STDs

Sexually transmitted diseases or STDs are infectious diseases that can be spread through sexual contact. Some can also be transmitted by non-sexual but non-sexual forms of transmission are less frequent. It is estimated that 10 to 15 million Americans have sexually transmitted diseases, many cases are epidemic, including gonorrhea, turning the urethra not caused by gonorrhea, genital herpes, candiloma, scabics (mites) and infections in the urethra and genitals women caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, and by the protozoan Trichomas fungus monilia. Several studies show that sexually transmitted diseases affect people of both sexes, all races and all walks of life in the United States.
A large number of infections are transmitted predominantly or exclusively by sexual contact. Besides the epidemic diseases that were mentioned above, we may include syphilis, boring (pediculosis pubis), vaginal infection caused by the bacterium Haemophilus and many others. STDs can be caused by a wide variety of organisms such as protozoan Trichomonas, causing moniliasis yeast, bacteria causing gonorrhea and syphilis and the virus that causes genital herpes.