A leading doctor has weighed in on viral social media claims that say that it’s possible to get chlamydia from touching gym equipment.

Chlamydia can be transmitted during vaginal or anal sex when one partner is infected. It can also be passed on to the eye by a hand moistened with infected secretions, and to a newborn from an ...

User @grinny45 initially visited his doctor complaining of 'pink eye' — also known as conjunctivitis, a benign minor infection of the eyelid. Tests revealed the cause was chlamydia. As the ...

Chlamydia and gonorrhea - two of the most common STDs - can lead to conjunctivitis, or pink eye, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. This causes an unpleasant infection that leads ...

“Chances are someone has sweated on the seat you put your gym towel [on], wiped your face, and [got] pink eye,” his doctor apparently told him. “Chlamydia is not the ghost of sweaty ...

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The scare can be traced to a posting last year by an influencer who warned that he had almost certainly caught chlamydia from his gym workout. He said he went to his doctor with an eye infection ...

A doctor has issued his opinion on whether you can actually catch chlamydia from using equipment at the gym. California ER doctor Joe Whittington has taken to his platform ( @drjoe_md) to address ...

Although chlamydia is highly contagious, it does not always transmit to a person’s sexual partners. It is also possible to have a false-negative or false-positive test result. Having more ...