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... According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2004, 458.3 out of 100,000 males aged 15-19 and 744.7 out of 100,000 males aged 20-24 had chlamydia, while 2,761.5 out of 100,000 women aged 15-19 and 2,630.7 women aged 20-24 had contracted the disease.

A 2004 report also states that the rates of women with chlamydia in North Carolina are higher than the rates of the nation as a whole.

Gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis are all treatable with antibiotics.

If left untreated, they can lead to more serious infections, such as pelvic inflammatory disease.

Herpes is another common STD at the university.

There are two types of herpes viruses: simplex, which appears as cold sores, and genitalus which appear in the genital area.

These two types of herpes can be interchanged through oral sex.

Herpes causes uncomfortable sores, which can lead to sickness and fever if there are many sores at once.

There is a treatment for herpes which modifies the course of the disease but does not get rid of it.

Herpes is not a very dangerous disease, but it is uncomfortable and highly infectious when there are lesions, Stuart said.

The only time the disease is dangerous is a first-time infection during the third trimester of pregnancy because it can spread to the baby.

According to ASHA, as many as one in four Americans have genital herpes, but as many as 90 percent are unaware of it.

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