Literature Review

Gonorrhea

Gonorrhea: What Happens Without Treatment

HS310

This is a review of the topic of gonorrhea and how the gathered information applies to the literature paper. The focus is set on explaining that gonorrhea going untreated can harm so many people with its silent symptoms. Giving numbers and percentages of people who are affected along with age ranges as being the highest infected. Many people have been infected and infected others without knowing they have the sexually transmitted disease. Safety methods of engaging in safe sex and what to do and not do to always remain cautious at all times for sexually active individuals with multiple partners. Keeping regular check-ups with physicians concerning your health also aid in finding out the dangers that lurk within our health that we may never notice will also be applied within the paper.

Gonorrhea: What Happens Without Treatment

The first article comes from a source within the CDC website stating how contagious the disease can become untreated. The data collected is based upon a 2007 STD surveillance that the CDC has recorded of individuals infected. Gonorrhea is a highly contagious and can lead to deadly disease that is spread through sexual contact. It can develop and continue to grow in warm areas such as the reproductive tract in men and women. Studies and research have also proven that it can grow in the mouth, throat, anus, and eyes in men and women. It is a scary sexually transmitted disease that can cause very bad infection to the human body. The CDC is very involved with the number of infected individuals in the United States. It has become a very highly contagious disease as AIDS and HIV.

This literature paper will focus on the symptoms and common treatments associated with gonorrhea. The information provided will focus on how people get gonorrhea. The risk factors of having of contracting gonorrhea, the complications of gonorrhea, gonorrhea’s connection with HIV, and the...