The first time when Chlamydia was mentioned in history was in 1963 when it was finally recognized as a bacteria rather than a virus. Before that it wasn't considered as sexually transmitted disease. Today, it affects a lot of people in the world and it is the most common and the most spread STD in the world.
Before recognizing chlamydia as STD some people may believed that if you are affected you are about to die, but today's medicine and technology allows you to fight chlamydia. But it can also have serious impact on your health or health of you child if you are affected when pregnant. In some cases people affected with chlamydia don't have any symptoms, but they can still survive.
If you have Chlamydia and you do have a baby without being treated it can harm your child. If it gets into your child’s eyes it can cause him or her to become blind. It may even cause your newborn to get pneumonia. Throughout the history of Chlamydia, it has also been found that having it can increase chance of getting HIV if you have sex with someone who is infected with this virus.
The word "chlamydia" comes from Greek word "chlamys" which means, "cloak draped around the shoulder". This describes how the chlamydia cells wrap around the afflicted cell's nucleus. Because the symptoms of chlamydia are similar some other infections it was not recognized as a sexually transmitted disease until recently. In 196
