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Early Records
In 1256, a law was passed in France during the reign of Louis IX relating to Gonorrhea. The symptoms of the infection were observed when the crusdaers lay siege of Acre. After the Pope secularized the practice of medicine, doctors began to treat this infection. -
Early Records
The Gonorrhea disese has been around since the midevil times. In the year of 1611, the English Parliment enacted a law to insure that the spread of the infection is decreased. http://www.news-medical.net/health/Gonorrhea-History.aspx -
Albert Neisser
Albert Neisser was the one who discovered the cause of Gonorrhea, gonococcus. -
What is Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is an infectious disease that is caused by sexual transmission. It has been around since the midevil times and was called "the clap" before it was fully discovered. It isn't very harmful, but if it is not treated it can lead to serious problems for both men and women. -
Possible treatments
In the old times, some treatments that they used to treat Gonorrhea was with the help of silver nitrate. After that stopped working another popular treatment was cubebs an Indonesian variety of pepper that people believed could help treat or atleast slow done the spread of it. -
First PREPARED vaccine
The first vaccine was prepared in 1890. After doing a lot of research, doctors finally prepared it in 1890 to not only treat Gonorrhea but treat other diseases as well. Although this vaccine was not introduced until 1909. -
The First Vaccine
They began to work and research for the first vaccine in the 1890's but wasn't introudced until 1909. It was prepared from killed gonococci taken from Neisser's laboratory. Then in 1940 penicillin came into use to treat it which doctors thought helped the most. Other antibiotics were also present during this time, but none that fully would help or treat Gonorrhea. -
Treatment Available
In 1937, gonorrhea began to be treated by antibiotics. Sulfonamides were the first option for treatment until penicillin. Penicillin is still the main treatment choice, however doctors and scientists are trying to find new treatments because gonorrhea still has millions of cases every year. -
Resistance
In Europe, Gonorrhea was discovered to be resistant to penicillin. This was a concern because back in those days their medicine was not as advanced as today's. This virus back in those days was very deadly to those contracted it. -
Penicillin
Penicillins continued to be mainstay of therapy until 1970’s. In 1980 the first gonococcus isolates were identified that were resistant to penicillin. -
Penicillin Resistant
In 1983 a local epidemic caused by a penicillin resistant strain occurred in North Carolina. Patients were successfully treated with spectinomycin. -
What causes Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is caused by the growth and proliferation of the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The disease can spread through these body parts: eye, rectum, mouth, penis, vagina. Mainly it can be transmitted through any variety of sexual contact. -
Super Gonorrhea (New Discovery)
The new strain of Gonorrhea, called super gonorrhea was discovered in Japan in 2009. It is also known as H041, and is considered worse than AIDS. It has simliar symtpoms as aids, and it can lead to death within a few days. It is still very lethal and US CDC has asked congress for $54 million to find an antibiotic for it. -
FACTS about Gonorrhea
Some up to date facts about this disese are:
Four out of five women with gonorrhea have no gonorrhea symtpoms.
One out of 10 men with gonorrhea have no symtpoms.
It affects about over 800,000 men and women in the US every year
It isn't a serious disease, however if it isn't treated right away it can lead to long term problems
Now a days this disease is increasing in many areas of the world because it is becoming more difficult to treat it.
