A Reason To Re-examine Your Sexual Activities

Gonorrhea, also known as the clap, has a history of being an otherwise seemingly harmless STD and no big deal for the most part. However this sexually transmitted disease is making headlines and causing concerns of becoming a possible epidemic due to the 700,000 new cases being reported each year.

Because of the low-grade antibiotics, Gonorrhea has been considered easy and inexpensively to treat and usually has no long lasting health effects. But the new information being examined by health officials are discovering a new strain of this STD and one that is different than what is considered common characteristics of the disease in that this new breed is drug resistant and cause for concern.

Health officials are concerned with the spreading of the disease because it is known to be one of the more commonly known STDs in the U.S. and has a time frame of around 30 days before symptoms are recognized, which opens the window of huge opportunity for the disease to be passed on to multiple partners before knowing there is a problem. It is also known that women are very effective carriers of the illness and can remain symptom free making in more easily spread unless they are tested, some never realize they have the illness and are spreading it.

STD experts believe that Gonorrhea is just one example of a disease transcending into a super bug and has morphed into being resistant to the arsenal of current drugs being used to treat the clap. This could well be the beginning of a super clap invasion that will gain new ground and causalities until and if new medical treatments are discovered. Current drugs can only be effective if the disease it is treating doesn't change into a more virile strand. Research shows that STD are returning more potent than ever before and harder to treat. This new super Gonorrhea symptoms include oozing and inflammation in males and complete loss of fertility for females.

It is important to realize that this disease is a result of having unprotected sex and it is important for those with unfamiliar or multiple partners who are not in a monogamous relationship to make sure that they always use a condom when engaging in any sort of sexual activity. Getting something as simple as Gonorrhea used to be no big deal but now that there is an antibiotic resistant strain out there you can't be too careful and remember just being symptom free doesn't mean that you don't have the illness. Getting tested is really the only way to tell for sure whether you have the Clap or not and if you do it is important to get treated. Hopefully you will have the strain that antibiotics work on and if you don't well then at least you can help prevent the spread of this STD by practicing safe sex.