Types of STDs - Assignment Example

An article appearing in Mod to Modern, a Modern Living Magazine publication focusing on healthy living in the modern world on 24th March 2013 emphasizes the need to learn what STDS are and know the different types of STDs and their transmission. STDs s as the article explains in general refer to many diseases that can be transmitted directly in sexual activities. STDs can either be viral or bacterial diseases. The risk involved in STDs is that there can never be 100% protection; some STDs can be transmitted by hand. Therefore, testing is very essential in determining the STD that one may be infected with as both viral and bacterial STDs have different treatment methods and some may have no symptoms, but attack when it is too late.

The issue of STD transmission, treatment, and prevention is covered in the biology concepts and Connections chapter 27.7. As the article notes, apart from viral and bacterial STDs, fungi and other organisms can cause some STDs. The article suggests that knowing the cause of the STD would make it much easier to treat, with the most common STD cause being bacteria that affects over 90 million people globally. The article reports that one advantage of bacterial STDs is that they are curable, comparing the viral STDs such as AIDs that have defied any treatment methods. Gonorrhea and syphilis are examples of bacteria-transmitted STDs. Therefore, knowing the actual cause of the STD makes it much easier to and prevents cases of misdiagnoses. Lack of enough knowledge about these diseases may be fatal and lead to complications in late stage of some such as syphilis which may attack the nervous system.

An important knowledge that has been gained is that some STDs do not have any symptoms, making them unnoticed, but become fatal with time as the disease spreads to all body systems.

The article has some scientific facts. The article assesses the main pathogens of many STDs and tries to differentiate them by elaborating on the nature of STDs. Similarly, the article calls for care when dealing with STDs; some are contagious and finally stresses the need to go for necessary tests to determine the actual STD in question.