Infertility fears over high sex disease rate

A SIGNIFICANT number of Limerick men are carrying a sexually transmitted disease that could leave their female partners infertile.

A groundbreaking study of chlamydia infection found almost 6% of 393 Limerick men aged between 17 and 35 had it - almost double the number researchers had expected.

The expert team which carried out the study said they had estimated it would have been about 3.5%.