These are bacterial infections in which about 75 percent of infected women have no symptoms. Fortunately, chlamydia can be treated and cured. PID spreads from the cervix up into the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries and causes scarring which can lead to a tubal pregnancy. This STD can cause conjunctivitis and pneumonia in newborns and can be transmitted from mother to child during birth, possibly causing eye, ear, and lung infections in the newborn. The herpes virus has no cure and is the most common STD in the United States.
Treatments do exist to reduce the pain and length of the virus' outbreaks.
HSV-2 can cause potentially fatal infections in infants if the mother is shedding the virus at the time of delivery. For women who have active genital herpes lesions at the time of delivery, a cesarian section may be performed to protect the newborn against infection. This is a bacterial infection that, if gone untreated, can infect and even cause the death of a developing baby. An infected pregnant woman has about a 40 percent chance of having a syphilitic stillbirth or delivering a baby who dies shortly after birth. Syphilis in BOTH mother and fetus can be cured during pregnancy with antibiotics, but only if you are honest with your physician about your history, and symptoms.