Just another reason why soldiers need to wrap it up:
Every new soldier in South Korea who tested positive for chlamydia in a special screening program showed no outward symptoms of the sexually transmitted disease, according to the nurse hired by 18th Medical Command to run the program.
From November through June, 124 of 2,134 incoming soldiers, about 5.8 percent, tested positive for chlamydia, according to Tanya Jacobsmuhlen, a registered nurse contracted by the medical command.
The project began eight months ago to detect reasons for what Army officials called a problem level of chlamydia among the roughly 20,000 troops in South Korea. [Stars & Stripes]
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10:43 pm on July 21st, 2008 1
I’ll bet this story makes the Korean press if it hasn’t already.
12:12 am on July 22nd, 2008 2
Respiratory strands of chlamydia are endemic in Korea, too. Chlamydia in Asia isn’t exclusive to STDs.
Anyone teaching students in the institutes or school system is susceptible and the CDC often isn’t smart enough to know the difference (the same antibiotics are used). If you get a stupid doctor, and he gets a throat swab that’s positive (when I was in South Korea they rotated out every six or so weeks, so the doctor who did the throat swab often wouldn’t be the one receiving the results of that test, which was a send-out back then) he’ll contact the CDC. Anyway, just the heads up, it’s no joke.
11:15 am on July 22nd, 2008 3
I remember at Camp Red Cloud (in 1980) we were given a briefing on VD at the base theatre, when the instructer told the group about even one of the guard dogs who had come down with Chlamydia of the throat. An immediate question arose from someone in the group as to what the name of the dog was.