Some infected people have no symptoms at all, while others may experience burning with urination, and a swarm of other genital affections. Anyone who is sexually active can get gonorrhea, and the disease can spread like wildfire through unprotected sex. The WHO’s program for monitoring trends in drug-resistant gonorrhoea found in a study that from 2009 to 2014 there was widespread resistance to the first-line medicine ciprofloxacin, increasing resistance to another antibiotic drugs called azithromycin, and the emergence of resistance to last-resort treatments known as extended-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs). Gonorrhea is a relatively common disease, infecting 78 million people each year. “And these cases may just be the tip of the iceberg, since systems to diagnose and report untreatable infections are lacking in lower-income countries where gonorrhoea is actually more common.” DRUG RESISTANCE Symptoms may include fever, scrotal pain, and swelling. This condition is characterized by inflammation of the tubes near the testicles that carry semen. Wi, who gave details in a telephone briefing. The infection, which in many cases has no symptoms on its own, can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility, as well as increasing the risk of getting HIV. It can be transmitted,” she told reporters. Males with untreated gonorrhea may develop a condition called epididymitis. The WHO estimates 78 million people a year get gonorrhea, an STD that can infect the genitals, rectum, and throat.
Wi, who gave details in a telephone briefing of two studies on gonorrhoea published in the journal PLOS Medicine, said one had documented three specific cases - one each in Japan, France and Spain - of patients with strains of gonorrhoea against which no known antibiotic is effective.
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