1 in 10 Female Army Recruits Has Chlamydia

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Yet, more than three-quarters of all the women surveyed believed they were at low risk for contracting a sexually transmitted disease in the next year.

Awareness about sexually transmitted diseases has declined in recent years, Yarnall says. "I think people get lulled into thinking, 'Oh, it's not going to be a problem, or I'm not going to get it, or it's easily curable,'" she says.

Gaydos says more public awareness would lead to more chlamydia screening.

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"If we had more public-awareness campaigns," she says, "we'd have more women and men going in and saying, 'I'm sexually active, can I be screened?"

More information

For more on chlamydia, visit the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (www.niaid.nih.gov) or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov).

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