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Infection1

• 3 Accordingly, screening for and treatment of gonococcal infection in pregnant women is an important strategy for reducing the sexual transmission of gonorrhea and subsequent vertical transmission leading to gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)

100,0001

• In the United States, the rate of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum was an estimated 0.4 cases per 100,000 live births per year from 2013 to 2017. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)

Screening1

• While screening and treatment programs have reduced the rates of gonorrhea in pregnant women, there are large disparities in access to prenatal care in the United States. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)

201617

• During 2016, a total of 468,514 cases of gonorrhea in the United States were reported to CDC. (cdc.gov)
• Six city and state health departments collaborating in an enhanced surveillance project completed an evaluation of 271,868 gonorrhea cases reported to them during 2010-2016. (cdc.gov)
• New cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States reached an all-time high in 2016. (desmoinesregister.com)
• In 2016, 2,600 cases of gonorrhea were reported in Iowa. (desmoinesregister.com)
• Public Health England's (PHE) latest report into rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) showed a 20% rise in syphilis cases from 2016 to 2017 (up from 5955 to 7137) and a 22% rise in gonorrhoea cases (from 36 577 to 44 676). (bmj.com)
• A 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) showed a major increase - 62.6% - in the rate of gonorrhea in males from 2012 to 2016, a number that the CDC said suggests increased transmission between gay and bisexual men, although limited reporting on the gender of sex partners makes a definitive answer difficult to assess. (towleroad.com)
• Dr. O'Mahony, professor of medicine and a venereologist at the University of Chester, told the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress in 2016 that he believes kissing, under some conditions, can spread throat gonorrhea. (towleroad.com)
• When the WHO partnered with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-governmental organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in May 2016 to confront antimicrobial resistance , gonorrhea was at the top of the list. (scientificamerican.com)
• Following a decline in notification rates in 2016, the number of gonorrhoea cases has gone up by 17% across the reporting EU/EEA countries with more than 89,000 confirmed diagnoses in 2017 - more than 240 cases a day. (tunisiesoir.com)
• After a small drop in 2016, gonorrhoea notifications were on the rise again in the majority of the 27 reporting countries in 2017. (tunisiesoir.com)
• The rise in notified cases among women between 2016 and 2017 (from 9.5 to 11 per 100,000 population) is concerning as untreated gonorrhoea can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease or cause infertility. (tunisiesoir.com)
• European surveillance data show a 10% decrease in newly reported hepatitis C cases between 2016 and 2017. (europa.eu)
• Gonorrhea cases increased 243 percent from 2011 to 2016. (heraldnet.com)
• The health district broke down the number of cases from 2011 to 2016 by city, with the biggest numbers generally in the cities with the largest populations, such as Everett, Lynnwood and Marysville. (heraldnet.com)
• Methods: We applied the Spectrum-STI estimation model, fitting data from two national population surveys (2001 and 2008) and from routine gonorrhea screening of pregnant women in antenatal care (1997-2016), adjusted for diagnostic test performance, male/female differences and missing high-risk populations. (who.int)
• Gonorrhea and chlamydia prevalence declined by an estimated 33% and 11%, respectively, over 2001-2016. (who.int)
• Estimating prevalence trends in adult gonorrhoea and syphilis prevalence in low- and middle-income countries with the Spectrum-STI model: results for Zimbabwe and Morocco from 1995 to 2016. (who.int)

20178

• The state recorded about 3,600 cases of the sexually transmitted disease in 2017, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported. (desmoinesregister.com)
• Cases of chlamydia rose from 11,006 in 2013 to 13,722 in 2017, the department said. (desmoinesregister.com)
• Cases of syphilis rose from 106 in 2013 to 244 in 2017. (desmoinesregister.com)
• Although Americans may be having less sex , it's getting riskier than ever, with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis spiked for the fourth consecutive year in 2017 to a record high of nearly 2.3 million diagnoses. (protectpatientsblog.com)
• In 2017-to-date, compared to previous years, TPH has noted an increase in reported hepatitis A cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) and who have not reported international travel. (toronto.ca)
• The biggest increase was in gonorrhoea , where there were 56,259 new cases - 14,000 more than in 2017. (thesun.co.uk)
• The 2017 increase follows the overall trend over the last decade during which 20 of the 28 EU/EEA countries consistently reporting registered an increase in the number of notified gonorrhoea cases. (tunisiesoir.com)
• Men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for almost half of the gonorrhoea cases (47%) in 2017. (tunisiesoir.com)

Oral sex6

• You can then pass antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea to someone else's privates through oral sex. (towleroad.com)
• You can get gonorrhea by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone who has gonorrhea. (wikihow.com)
• Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) pose a serious risk to anyone having unprotected sexual intercourse, oral sex, anal sex, and in some cases, skin-to-skin contact with an infected area. (healthyplace.com)
• However, in rare cases, it can be passed on to other people through kissing and oral sex. (everydayhealth.com)
• The only STD associated with epididymitis that you could have gotten through oral sex is gonorrhea (chlamydia is almost never found in the throat). (medhelp.org)
• Men and women can acquire gonorrhea of the throat from performing oral sex on an infected partner, usually a male partner. (wikipedia.org)

Untreatable gonorrhea5

• If resistance continues to increase and spread, current treatment will ultimately fail and 800,000 Americans a year will be at risk for untreatable gonorrhea. (washingtontimes.com)
• Many countries have seen resistance to both drugs, leading to warnings about the emergence of potentially untreatable gonorrhea . (healio.com)
• Dr. Robert Kirkcaldy of the CDC said there have so far been no U.S. cases of "untreatable" gonorrhea, in which the germ resists all known treatments, but U.S. laboratory data suggest resistance is beginning to emerge. (lifescript.com)
• Action is urgently needed to prevent untreatable gonorrhea from becoming a reality," Gail Bolan , director of the Atlanta-based CDC's division of sexually transmitted disease prevention, in a telephone interview. (bloomberg.com)
• An era of untreatable gonorrhea may have been initiated," the researchers warn in a published summary of their report. (npr.org)

Pelvic16

• In women, gonorrhoea leads to pelvic inflammatory disease, which increases the risks of ectopic pregnancy and infertility. (vice.com)
• If gonorrhoea is diagnosed, you will be started on a course of antibiotics that should clear up the problem but pelvic inflammatory disease can take weeks to treat, and longer for the damage to heal. (fertilityexpert.co.uk)
• Left untreated, gonorrhea can cause serious health problems, particularly for women, including chronic pelvic pain, life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, and even infertility. (cdc.gov)
• 2 Gonorrhoea merits prevention efforts in its own right because its sequelae include pelvic inflammatory disease resulting in tubal infertility and ectopic pregnancy, fetal prematurity, and ophthalmia neonatorum. (bmj.com)
• The CDC says that if a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea becomes widespread over a 10-year period, there will be an estimated 75,000 additional cases of pelvic inflammatory disease-which causes infertility. (cnbc.com)
• Successful gonorrhoea treatment with antibiotics reduces the risk of complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancies, infertility or increased HIV transmission in some settings. (europa.eu)
• If not treated gonorrhea can lead to (in women) Fallopian scarring and pelvic inflammatory disease, both of which can result in infertility. (wordpress.com)
• Painful urination, genital discharge and general abdominal/pelvic pain are obvious symptoms of gonorrhea that affect both men and women. (wikihow.com)
• In women, gonorrhea may cause Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). (wikihow.com)
• In women, the cervix is the most common site of gonorrhea, resulting in endocervicitis and urethritis , which can be complicated by pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). (medscape.com)
• Untreated, gonorrhea can lead to pelvic inflammation in women and sterility in men. (rt.com)
• Gonorrhea is a major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility. (ibtimes.com)
• More severe cases of PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) may require you to stay in the hospital. (medlineplus.gov)
• Untreated gonorrhea can spread into the uterus and fallopian tubes, causing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which may result in scarring of the tubes, greater risk of pregnancy complications and infertility. (drugs.com)
• Women with untreated gonorrhea are at risk for serious complications, such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) . (everydayhealth.com)
• Even without symptoms, if you have gonorrhea and you don't get it treated, it can cause other health problems: Untreated gonorrhea can damage your reproductive system, increase your risk of getting or giving HIV, cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), or lead to infertility. (plannedparenthood.org)

Left untreated1

• According to the CDC, if left untreated, gonorrhea can wreak havoc on your body: "In men, gonorrhea can cause a painful condition in the tubes attached to the testicles. (towleroad.com)

20185

• March, 29, 2018 -- The world's "worst-ever" case of super- gonorrhea has been diagnosed in a U.K. man who was infected after sex with a woman in south-east Asia, health officials say. (webmd.com)
• The complete 70,936 cases have been reported by more than 1/4 since 2018. (myfoxutah.com)
• In England Advocates for Public Health says that gonorrhea will increase between 2018-19, with chlamydia and syphilis reported in all 15 and older patients. (myfoxutah.com)
• PHE says these cases are unrelated to the 2018 case of resistant gonorrhea in a U.K. national acquired in Southeast Asia. (webmd.com)
• According to the CDC's Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2018 report, STD cases are on the rise, both across the nation and in Indiana. (testing.com)

Azithromycin15

• The cases, identified in Honolulu in April and May, showed resistance to azithromycin at much higher levels than other cases throughout the U.S. Test results also revealed that five individuals showed increased resistance to ceftriaxone, which is recommended in combination with azithromycin as a treatment by the CDC. (washingtontimes.com)
• It's the first case of the sexually-transmitted disease that could not be cured with the main antibiotic treatment, a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone, according to Public Health England, BBC News reported. (webmd.com)
• Ceftriaxone is one of only two drugs recommended by WHO and the CDC to treat gonorrhea, the other being azithromycin. (healio.com)
• The patient tested negative for gonorrhea 2 weeks later, indicating that treatment with cefixime and azithromycin worked, they said. (healio.com)
• What happened next helps illustrate how serious this is: The strain of gonorrhoea was found to be resistant to both antibiotics in the standard two-drug cocktail-azithromycin and ceftriaxone. (vice.com)
• Resistance to azithromycin, an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea, is emerging, according to CDC findings published today in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . (cdc.gov)
• CDC currently recommends a combination gonorrhea treatment with two antibiotics - an oral dose of azithromycin and single shot of ceftriaxone. (cdc.gov)
• Findings released today from CDC's surveillance system for monitoring the threat of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea show that the percentage of gonorrhea isolates with decreased susceptibility to azithromycin, an indicator of emerging resistance, increased more than 300 percent between 2013 and 2014 (from 0.6 percent to 2.5 percent of gonorrhea isolates). (cdc.gov)
• For treatment of gonorrhea, the CDC now recommends only ceftriaxone plus either azithromycin or doxycycline as a first-line treatment. (cnbc.com)
• Longtin noted that just four years ago in Quebec, all gonorrhea strains tested were susceptible to azithromycin, but now about 20 percent are resistant to the drug. (statnews.com)
• Treatment with antibiotics active for Chlamydia or gonorrhea within the last 2 weeks: doxycycline, quinolones and azithromycin, and cefixime. (clinicaltrials.gov)
• He said the double treatment, an injectable ceftriaxone and azithromycin in pill form, are the standard antibiotics used to treat gonorrhea. (rt.com)
• The CDC tells doctors to use these drugs in combination with another antibiotic - preferably azithromycin - to treat all gonorrhea these days. (npr.org)
• The CDC reported finding seven first-time cases of gonorrhea in Hawaii resistant to azithromycin and less susceptible to ceftriaxone, the last effective treatments. (ibtimes.com)
• The CDC currently recommends a shot of the antibiotic Rocephin (ceftriaxone) and an oral dose of the antibiotic Zithromax (azithromycin) , given at the same time, to treat gonorrhea. (everydayhealth.com)

Anal5

• Gonorrhea is transmitted through vaginal, oral, and anal sex. (towleroad.com)
• According to some experts, throat gonorrhea can also be transmitted by French kissing (though the evidence is far from conclusive) and when saliva is used as a lubricant for anal sex. (towleroad.com)
• Also known as, "The Clap," Gonorrhea can be acquired through (as with Chlamydia) unprotected oral, vaginal, or anal sex. (wordpress.com)
• Anal gonorrhea often doesn't have any symptoms. (plannedparenthood.org)
• You can also get gonorrhea in your butt, usually from receiving anal sex. (plannedparenthood.org)

Infertility7

• Without treatment, gonorrhea can cause serious and permanent health problems, including infertility in women. (cdc.gov)
• Gonorrhea can cause infertility if it goes untreated. (kgw.com)
• Gonorrhea: Could it Explain Some Cases of Infertility? (fertilityexpert.co.uk)
• Untreated gonorrhea can lead to infertility and increase the risk that an infected person will contract HIV. (statnews.com)
• Complications in men with gonorrhea include epididymitis (an inflammation of the tube which carries sperm) and infertility. (medicalnewstoday.com)
• Gonorrhea can lead to serious health problems and even infertility if you don't treat it. (plannedparenthood.org)
• Untreated gonorrhea can damage your reproductive system, increase your risk of getting or giving HIV, cause epididymitis, or lead to infertility. (plannedparenthood.org)

Antibiotic resistance6

• Antibiotic resistance can make treating gonorrhea and preventing its spread much more difficult, resulting in an even greater increase in gonorrhea cases in the United States. (cdc.gov)
• By preventing antibiotic resistance, CDC can prevent gonorrhea cases, which saves health care costs. (cdc.gov)
• A better study to distinguish the prevalence on men and women was done on a group of patients who sought treatment against STIs, but in an area known to have high risk rates of gonorrhea and antibiotic resistance. (stdlabs.com)
• Gonorrhea is very good at picking up antibiotic resistance," said Carlos del Rio , a professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta and a member of the CDC's gonorrhea surveillance program, by telephone. (bloomberg.com)
• The new report comes only a few days after the CDC put out a 10-year review of growing antibiotic resistance among US gonorrhea isolates, concluding "the eventual emergence of cephalosporin resistance appears likely. (npr.org)
• Public health officials are gathering extra data about treatment failures and the spread of antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea. (webmd.com)

Drug-resistant gonorrhea7

• This is a computer-generated image of drug-resistant gonorrhea. (healio.com)
• This will not solve the problem of drug-resistant gonorrhea once and for all, but it may buy us time to allow researchers and drug developers to develop new treatments," Bolan told reporters in a telephone briefing. (lifescript.com)
• Until new treatments reach the market, experts say the best way to reduce the risk of drug-resistant gonorrhea is to rapidly diagnose the disease and fight it with combinations of two or more types of antibiotics at the same time. (lifescript.com)
• Health agencies in the United States, Europe and Canada have in recent years flagged drug-resistant gonorrhea as an emerging threat. (scientificamerican.com)
• CDC issues notice regarding drug-resistant gonorrhea. (mn.us)
• The strain of highly drug-resistant gonorrhea, first detected in March in Leeds, did not respond to a two-antibiotic combo treatment prescribed for the condition. (rt.com)
• Though the Washington cases can still be successfully treated with antibiotics if caught early enough, some parts of Europe and Asia are already seeing drug-resistant gonorrhea. (ijpr.org)

Gonococcal3

• Recent reports of extensively drug-resistant gonorrhoea strains , make it vital to understand if changes in resistance prevalence are the consequence of modifications in treatment, sexual behaviour in different sexual networks, the gonococcal strain distribution or due to other reasons. (europa.eu)
• The overall aim of Euro-GASP is to strengthen the surveillance of gonococcal antimicrobial susceptibility in EU/EEA Member States in order to provide quality-assured data to inform gonorrhoea treatment guidelines. (europa.eu)
• If not treated, gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum will develop in 28% of infants born to women with gonorrhea. (wikipedia.org)

Resistance17

• As CDC learns that gonorrhea has developed resistance to a previously effective antibiotic regimen, it updates its recommendations for health care providers. (cdc.gov)
• HONOLULU (AP) - Federal researchers say a cluster of gonorrhea cases in Hawaii are the first in the nation to show resistance to the strongest antibiotics available to combat the sexually transmitted disease. (washingtontimes.com)
• This is the first time a case has displayed such high-level resistance to both of these drugs and to most other commonly used antibiotics ," said Dr. Gwenda Hughes, Public Health England, BBC News reported. (webmd.com)
• CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are urging doctors to stop using a key antibiotic to treat routine cases of gonorrhea due to signs of bacterial resistance, leaving one treatment left for the sexually transmitted disease. (lifescript.com)
• Gonorrhoea isn't pushing the development of resistance, it's the other way around. (vice.com)
• By attacking gonorrhoea from different angles it would give us a better efficacy and reduce the likelihood of giving us a resistance to any one group of antibiotics," says Kees Rietmeijer, medical director of the STD control program at Denver Public Health. (vice.com)
• The confluence of emerging drug resistance and very limited alternative options for treatment creates a perfect storm for future gonorrhea treatment failure in the U.S.," said Jonathan Mermin, M.D., director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention . (cdc.gov)
• There's no question gonorrhea is developing resistance to every drug created to fight it," Smith said. (cnbc.com)
• This antibiotic agent is part of the currently recommended therapy regimen for gonorrhoea and observed resistance patterns threaten its effectiveness. (europa.eu)
• If the common antibiotics stop working due to resistance, we only have very limited alternatives left to successfully treat gonorrhoea. (europa.eu)
• This document is informed by provincial resistance data and presents current recommendations for gonorrhea testing and treatment. (toronto.ca)
• Gonorrhea is a really smart bug, and it has developed resistance to most of the recommended treatments in the past," Torrone said. (statnews.com)
• According to a paper to be published in PLoS Medicine on July 7, there is robust resistance to three common types of antibiotics prescribed for gonorrhea. (scientificamerican.com)
• Some countries with better monitoring systems, the UN agency said in a statement , found cases of resistance to all known antibiotics. (wordpress.com)
• Gonorrhea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance," she wrote in a letter to physicians and pharmacists, according to The Guardian . (rt.com)
• Gonorrhea has rapidly acquired resistance to new antibiotics, leaving few alternatives to the current recommendations. (rt.com)
• The type of resistance in the new cases was found to be different. (webmd.com)

Vaginal2

• Half of women with gonorrhea are asymptomatic but the other half experience vaginal discharge , lower abdominal pain, or pain with sexual intercourse associated with inflammation of the uterine cervix . (wikipedia.org)
• Half of women with gonorrhea do not have symptoms, whereas others have vaginal discharge, lower abdominal pain, or pain with sexual intercourse associated with inflammation of the uterine cervix. (wikipedia.org)

Susceptibility3

• In an era of multidrug-resistant gonorrhea, ongoing antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance of N. gonorrhoeae is critical to support treatment guidelines, public health intervention and protection. (healio.com)
• The use of two antimicrobials for gonorrhoea therapy, which was introduced in 2012, has likely contributed to increased susceptibility to ceftriaxone. (europa.eu)
• We know there's a lot more gonorrhea out there, which means a high probability of maybe coming into contact with a strain that has reduced susceptibility," she told STAT. (statnews.com)

World's Worst Case2

• The world's worst case of "Super Gonorrhea" - that is, gonorrhea that cannot be cured with first choice antibiotics - has arrived. (towleroad.com)
• The unlucky man caught the world's worst case of the clap on a recent sexual encounter with a woman while travelling somewhere in "southeast Asia," according to the report . (vice.com)

Officials16

• Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. (cdc.gov)
• While CDC officials found the results concerning, they say an experimental oral antibiotic being tested in a clinical study could provide some new options for gonorrhea treatment. (washingtontimes.com)
• They also talked with Maryland health officials to learn of any statewide initiatives or programs that could have contributed to the decline in gonorrhea cases. (baltimoresun.com)
• A spike in the number of patients presenting to health and medical facilities with gonorrhoea has sparked a call from health officials for people to use more condoms. (brisbanetimes.com.au)
• So-called "superbug" drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea accounted for almost one in 10 cases of sexually transmitted disease in Europe in 2010, more than double the rate of the year before, health officials from the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in June. (lifescript.com)
• LANSING, Mich. - State health officials are investigating six cases of a rare form of gonorrhea in West Michigan. (fox17online.com)
• Health officials have warned about the first case of super-gonorrhoea contracted within the UK. (vice.com)
• Federal health officials say that gonorrhea strains resistant to Cipro, the brand name for ciprofloxacin, have migrated to the U.S. West Coast from Hawaii and Southeast Asia. (wsj.com)
• Health officials across the Northwest are trying to figure out why they're seeing a big upswing in the number of people with gonorrhea this year. (nwnewsnetwork.org)
• Aubin says health officials are on high-alert for gonorrhea because it has a history of becoming resistant to treatments. (nwnewsnetwork.org)
• Doctors can give the HIV medicine Truvada as a preventative to healthy heterosexuals at high risk of the virus and should treat gonorrhea differently to hold off a drug-resistant form growing outside the country, U.S. officials said. (bloomberg.com)
• EVERETT - Sexually transmitted disease cases are increasing at such alarming rates that public health officials say Snohomish County is having an STD crisis. (heraldnet.com)
• State health officials say 633 cases have been reported so far this year compared to 327 cases during the same period last year. (kuer.org)
• But at a time when gonorrhea is becoming stubbornly drug-resistant, health officials see it as time - and embarrassment - well spent. (ijpr.org)
• Public health officials in the Pacific Northwest are trying to stop a series of gonorrhea outbreaks, and for infected patients, health departments are offering anonymous notification of former sexual partners, as in a government worker will tell your exes for you. (ijpr.org)
• But at a time when gonorrhea is becoming drug resistant, health officials see it as time well spent. (ijpr.org)

Cervix3

• Gonorrhea in women is classified into lower (below the cervix) and upper gonorrhea (above the cervix). (lecturio.com)
• In females, gonorrhea can also infect the cervix. (drugs.com)
• Both men and women can get gonorrhea in the mouth, urethra, eyes, and anus, and in women it can also infect the cervix, uterus, and fallopian tubes. (everydayhealth.com)

820,0003

• Some 820,000 cases of gonorrhea are reported in the U.S. every year, making it the second most reported communicable disease behind another sexual disease, chlamydia. (cnbc.com)
• While the CDC reports over 350,000 cases of the STD, they estimate about 820,000 new cases annually. (rt.com)
• Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) with about 820,000 new cases reported in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (everydayhealth.com)

Complications1

• Gonorrhea is easily treated but can cause serious and sometimes permanent complications. (medicalnewstoday.com)

Clap1

• Gonorrhea is a common sexually transmitted disease, sometimes referred to as "the clap. (medicalnewstoday.com)

Treat gonorrhea4

• This drug combination is the last of the easy-to-administer, should-work-for-everyone antibiotic therapies available to treat gonorrhea, which has plowed its way through all the drugs in the medical armamentarium. (statnews.com)
• Lack of new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea is due in part to a shortage of funding from investors. (scientificamerican.com)
• Know what happens if you don't treat gonorrhea. (wikihow.com)
• The cost of antibiotics to treat gonorrhea varies. (everydayhealth.com)

Strains of gonorrhea2

• But since some strains of gonorrhea have become resistant to antibiotics , your doctor may give you two antibiotics to treat it, one as a shot and another as a pill. (everydayhealth.com)
• But some strains of gonorrhea are antibiotic-resistant. (heraldnet.com)

Rise7

• Gonorrhea is one of the most common STDs in the United States, and the 2014 STD surveillance report indicates that gonorrhea and other reportable STDs are on the rise. (cdc.gov)
• Super-gonorrhea has seen a shocking rise in Britain as the STI puts up a fight against antibiotics. (wn.com)
• BRITS are being warned of a rise in gonorrhoea after diagnoses soared 26 per cent in just one year. (thesun.co.uk)
• It's prompted warnings that drug-resistant strains - dubbed 'super' gonorrhoea - could also be on the rise. (thesun.co.uk)
• People in this category also had a more notable rise in syphilis cases, which have more than doubled in the past decade, according to PHE. (thesun.co.uk)
• Sixteen cases of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, have been reported in the UK, leading the country's chief medical officer to warn of the rise of "super-gonorrhea. (rt.com)
• Snohomish County isn't alone in seeing a rise in STD cases. (heraldnet.com)

Surveillance5

• A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. (cdc.gov)
• Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient's health needs. (cdc.gov)
• The number of gonorrhea reports in 2013 (n=2,214) was the highest annual number over the 11-year surveillance period, driven primarily by a 22 per cent increase in reports among males. (toronto.ca)
• Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is coming," said Elizabeth Torrone, surveillance team leader in the division of sexually transmitted disease prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (statnews.com)
• 2009 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance: Gonorrhea. (medscape.com)

Ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea1

• Though this case is the first in North America, it is not the first time ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea has been diagnosed. (statnews.com)

Bacterial1

• Number of bacterial STD cases reported in Minnesota including gonorrhea by year and other demographic breakdowns. (mn.us)

19901

• 3 The target reduction of 20% in the national rate of gonorrhoea from the 1990 level was reached by 1992. (bmj.com)

35,0003

• About 35,000 cases of the most contagious forms of the disease were reported - also the most since 1991. (radio.com)
• The UK reported 35,000 cases of gonorrhea last year. (rt.com)
• There are 78 million cases of gonorrhoea across the world each year, with almost 35,000 in England in 2014, an increase of 19% on the previous year. (ox.ac.uk)

Centers for Diseas6

• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that the seven Hawaii cases could mean treatment for gonorrhea is becoming less effective, Hawaii News Now reported (https://bit.ly/2d61AA4). (washingtontimes.com)
• Montana is not alone or unique-the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says syphilis and gonorrhea reports are the highest nationwide since 1991. (outbreaknewstoday.com)
• X Trustworthy Source Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Main public health institute for the US, run by the Dept. of Health and Human Services Go to source Talk to your doctor if you may have gonorrhea so you can get treatment to help you recover. (wikihow.com)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that gonorrhea infects 700,000 Americans each year. (npr.org)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday announced Louisiana State University researchers are studying an experimental oral antibiotic treatment for gonorrhea, which has gotten even less susceptible to the last two antibiotics currently used to treat it. (ibtimes.com)
• This fall, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report identifying a form of "super" gonorrhea as an urgent threat. (ijpr.org)

Extensively drug-resistant1

• Two cases in Australia have been labelled extensively drug-resistant gonorrhoea. (brisbanetimes.com.au)

Strain12

• The emergence of this new strain of highly resistant gonorrhea is of huge concern and is a significant development," Olwen Williams, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, told BBC News . (webmd.com)
• On Monday, the CDC issued its highest level of warning for a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea -saying the sexually transmitted disease is an "urgent threat" to the health of Americans. (cnbc.com)
• According to the CDC, an estimated 246,000 of those gonorrhea cases are of the drug-resistant strain. (cnbc.com)
• The CDC estimates that direct medical costs if the strain spreads will be $235 million over the 10 years, but that costs would likely be even higher due to case management and patient follow-ups with doctors. (cnbc.com)
• The full emergence of a ceftriaxone-resistant strain would greatly limit treatment options and could cripple gonorrhea control efforts, says the CDC. (cnbc.com)
• And for those worried about contracting the drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea, the NCSD's Smith had some simple advice. (cnbc.com)
• Experience has shown that once a resistant strain of gonorrhea appears, it steadily displaces strains that antibiotics can kill. (npr.org)
• The emergence of a strain of gonorrhea that can thwart the last antibiotic effective in treating the common sexually transmitted disease was bound to happen, experts say. (npr.org)
• The new, super-resistant strain is called H041 , and so far, only a handful of cases are known in Japan. (npr.org)
• Experience has shown that once a resistant strain of gonorrhea appears, it steadily displaces those that can be killed with antibiotics. (npr.org)
• This super-gonorrhea strain doesn't merely require higher doses of the most powerful antibiotic available. (npr.org)
• It added: "PHE is concerned that the effectiveness of current front-line dual therapy for gonorrhoea will be threatened if this resistant strain continues to spread unchecked. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

Condom2

• According to multivariate logistic regression analysis the following factors were significantly related to gonorrhoea in men: education level, sexual contact same day as meeting, condom use, history of prior gonorrhoea, and casual and/or new sex partner in the past month. (nih.gov)
• Condom use and risk of gonorrhea and Chlamydia: a systematic review of design and measurement factors assessed in epidemiologic studies. (medscape.com)

Prevalence2

• Discussion: Gonorrhea and chlamydia prevalence are estimated to have declined in Mongolia during the early 2000s, possibly associated with syndromic management in primary care facilities and improving treatment coverage since 2001, and scale-up of (Global Fund-supported) HIV/STI prevention interventions since 2003. (who.int)
• However, prevalence remain high, with most gonorrhea and chlamydia cases not treated or recorded in the public health system. (who.int)

Swab1

• Testing for gonorrhea can be completed by analyzing a urine sample or a swab of an affected area. (medicalnewstoday.com)

Testicles1

• Men with untreated gonorrhea can experience epididymitis - inflammation of a small, coiled tube in the rear portion of the testicles where the sperm ducts are located (epididymis). (drugs.com)

Super gonorrhoea1

• Neither of the people pictured have super gonorrhoea. (vice.com)

Sexually transmit2

• If you do get symptoms if you have gonorrhoea they are not very specific - the same symptoms can arise with other sexually transmitted diseases. (fertilityexpert.co.uk)
• All people testing positive for gonorrhea should be tested for other sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, syphilis, and human immunodeficiency virus. (wikipedia.org)

Prevention1

• Our last line of defense against gonorrhea is weakening," said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, in a news release. (washingtontimes.com)

Symptoms of gonorrhea3

• What are the signs and symptoms of gonorrhea in females? (medscape.com)
• What are the symptoms of gonorrhea? (plannedparenthood.org)
• Symptoms of gonorrhea. (plannedparenthood.org)

Syphilis and gonorrhea2

• Men who have sex with men, while adopting PREP - which has shown high protective value - don't also safeguard themselves against syphilis and gonorrhea by wearing condoms during sex. (protectpatientsblog.com)
• Chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea can be treated with antibiotics. (heraldnet.com)

Chlamydia and syphilis1

• In addition to gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis cases have also been rising. (outbreaknewstoday.com)

Inflammation2

• The most common medical complication of gonorrhea in men is inflammation of the epididymis . (wikipedia.org)
• As with most other STD s, the inflammation and tissue damage that gonorrhea causes makes an infected person more susceptible to catching and passing on HIV , the virus that causes AIDS . (everything2.com)

Curable4

• As has been mentioned, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are curable, which may cause someone to go, "So what's the big deal if I get one of these? (wordpress.com)
• This is dangerous thinking as both of these STI's can lower the body's immunity and make other incurable STI's have an easier time infecting a person, and even if right now these can be cured, there is a growing concern with antibiotic-resistant (or completely antibiotic-immune) cases of chlamydia and especially gonorrhea that could theoretically lead to a point where even these once-curable STI's no longer can be treated. (wordpress.com)
• Is Gonorrhea Curable? (everydayhealth.com)
• Warren says there's an incentive to add gonorrhea to the list: It may not always be easily curable. (ijpr.org)