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TORONTO, Aug 12 (LSN) – A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released today says “The high number of cases of chlamydia found among adolescent girls has prompted health experts to recommend screening all sexually active adolescent girls for chlamydia infection every six months.”  Gale R. Burstein, M.D., M.P.H., of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore warned that the disease is hard to detect since it has few if any symptoms but if untreated it can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility and ectopic pregnancies. Dr. Joy Thompson of Planned Parenthood in Toronto says with three and four patients per week testing positive for the disease at the centre, “I think we would call it an epidemic.”  Pro-life observers suggest that this demonstrates the failure of permissive contraceptive-based sex-ed programs and should encourage a speedy and decisive shift to abstinence-based sex education.