Gonorrhea is one of the main ailments causing trauma to mankind. It is termed as STD or a disease that is sexually transmitted from one person to another. Thick discharges result from the penis and the vagina of the respective infected persons. As per a latest survey, Gonorrhea has posed a serious threat to the health departments of all governments across the globe.

Cases of Gonorrhea have been frequently reported from among those people who are sexually very active. Mention may be made of the teenagers, youths or the African Americans in the USA where on the average 700,500 people annually fall prey to this debilitating ailment. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg; for many such Gonorrhea cases go unreported for various reasons.

Most of the countries regularly take up mass awareness campaigns on the STD diseases when the health volunteers identify and meet the vulnerable sections of the populations in their respective countries. There are clinics and also mobile health units that regularly distribute the necessary aids among the targeted population to ensure that STD diseases, such as Gonorrhea, are kept at bay. Owing to such campaigns, the number of people affected by Gonorrhea has been coming down.

The primary cause of Gonorrhea is the bacterium -- Neisseria gonorrhoeae. This bacterium needs a moist and warm environment to reproduce itself and these ideal locales are to be found in the reproductive section of a woman as well as the urinary canal besides the anus, eyes, throat and also the mouth. Once a man or a woman gets affected by Gonorrhea, the bacterium transforms those places into its habitat to multiply fast and rather easily.

Mentionably, a woman's reproductive section is made up of three main parts, viz., the fallopian tubes via which the human eggs are transported, the womb or the uterus and the womb opening or the cervix. All these sensitive and vital sections of a woman's body is very susceptible to Gonorrhea. The commonly reported symptoms of Gonorrhea are swollen or painful testicles or a sensation of burning during urinating or the penis discharging green colored thick fluid almost akin to the semen. However, these symptoms appear almost a month after the person has been infected by Gonorrhea.

There are a number of ways in which Gonorrhea can be transmitted. The main means is sexual intercourse. The disease is spread via the male sexual organ - the penis - as well as the primary female sexual organ -- the vagina - or the anus and even the mouth. One should always take extra care and use preventive measures (like the condom in the case of males or the loop in the case of women) to check Gonorrhea.

Once ejaculation occurs from an infected male inside the naked vaginal portion of a woman, the woman can get affected by the disease. There are also cases of Gonorrhea being transmitted from an infected woman to a male during sexual intercourse or even while kissing. It is important to remember that anyone can be affected by Gonorrhea several times notwithstanding the fact that this person did undergo treatment for the disease earlier and was cured subsequently. Gonorrhea can pass on to the new-born baby from the affected mother.