You might think chlamydia is a rare sexually transmitted disease (STD) that you don’t need to worry about. Or that it has minor symptoms. Both these assumptions are wrong. Turns out chlamydia is the most commonly reported STD. While both women and men can indeed be asymptomatic (without symptoms), chlamydia can cause serious problems such as infertility, painful urination, fever, genital discharges and pink-eye. Specifically in women, chlamydia can lead to ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, vaginal bleeding, miscarriage, and the risk of passing the infection to an unborn baby who might develop pneumonia. In men, it can lead to swollen and painful testicles as well as arthritis.

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