Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Yes, and my cell phone might give me cancer, too....
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It's a virus. There is no cure. The others are all either protozoan (syphilis) or bacterial (gonorrhoea), barring HIV of course.

The "short course of pills" can last several months in such lovely cases as epididimitis where the infection has spread to your testicles and unsurprisingly is ever so slightly painful.

And chlamydia is often asymptomatic. In blokes that's fine but in women can over time lead to infertility.