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Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea is a curable sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It infects approximately 750,000 people in the United States each year, although another 750,000 unreported cases are also believed to occur each year. According to the CDC, the rate of reported gonorrhea infections was 132.2 per 100,000 persons in 1999. Any sexually active person can be infected with gonorrhea, yet nearly 75 percent of all reported gonorrhea is found in individuals 15 to 29 years old. The most common symptoms of gonorrhea are a discharge from the vagina or penis and painful or difficult urination. It can infect the genital tract, the mouth, and the rectum. In women, the cervix and uterus can be the first place of infection, with the disease later spreading to the uterus and fallopian tubes, resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID affects more than one million women in the U.S. each year and can cause ectopic pregnancies and infertility in as many as 10 percent of infected women.
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