The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study Tuesday showing that one in every four adolescent girls in United States, aged between 14 and 19 years, has been infected with sexually transmitted disease (STD).

The authors of the study said that there were at least 3.2 million teenage girls between aged 14 and 19 currently infected with common STDs.

According to the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention Director Kevin Fenton, women must be cautious of their health especially if they have STDs because they are highly susceptible from infertility to cervical cancer.

The study showed that among the 838 girl participants, half of them already experienced having sex, and 40 percent were infected with STD.

And 18.3 percent was infected with human papillomavirus or HPV, the most common STD.

U.S. health officials said that sex education can help the teens to abstain from having sex at a very young age.