Gonorrhea Symptoms

Gonorrhea is one of the main ailments causing trauma to mankind. It is termed as STD or a disease that is sexually transmitted from one person to another. Thick discharges result from the penis and the vagina of the respective infected persons. As per a latest survey, Gonorrhea has posed a serious threat to the health departments of all governments across the globe.Cases of Gonorrhea have been frequently reported from among those people who are sexually very active. Mention may be made of the teenagers, youths or the African Americans in the USA where on the average 700,500 people annually fall prey to this debilitating ailment. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg; for many such Gonorrhea cases go unreported for various reasons.Most of the countries regularly take up mass awareness campaigns on the STD diseases when the health volunteers identify and meet the vulnerable sections of the populations in their respective countries. There are clinics and also mobile health units that regularly distribute the necessary aids among the targeted population to ensure that STD diseases, such as Gonorrhea, are kept at bay. Owing to such campaigns, the number of people affected by Gonorrhea has been coming down.

This bacterium needs a moist and warm environment to reproduce itself and these ideal locales are to be found in the reproductive section of a woman as well as the urinary canal besides the anus, eyes, throat and also the mouth. Once a man or a woman gets affected by Gonorrhea, the bacterium transforms those places into its habitat to multiply fast and rather easily.