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Gonorrhea is transmitted by vaginal, anal, and sometimes oral sexual contact.

Gonorrhea mostly infects the eyes, throat, and rectum. The vagina usually is not infected, as the epithelial tissues act as a barrier against harmful infections. The cervix can be infected, but rarely is. Also, pregnant women can pass gonorrhea to their children, as the disease enters the bloodstream. Many times, infants infected with gonorrhea during pregnancy will be blind from birth.

Symptoms of gonorrhea appear within 2 to 14 days of contact. The symptoms of gonorrhea include pain while urinating, trouble urinating, discharge, and abnormal menstrual bleeding. If gonorrhea is left untreated, pelvic inflammatory disease and/or enlarging of the prostate gland can occur.

More than 700,000 people get infected with gonorrhea every year in the United States. Condoms often can protect against being infected with gonorrhea, but the transfer or the disease is still possible. Amoxicillin and Penicillin are often proscribed to help rid the body of gonorrhea, but often many doses are necessary, and sometimes they do not work.