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Fat Link to Sex Disease Bug

December 12, 2005

A BUG responsible for Britain’s most common sexually transmitted infection lives off body fat, scientists in America have found. The research helps to explain the recently discovered link between chlamydia and heart disease.

More than 100,000 men and women are treated at clinics for chlamydia infection each year