Interview: Experts explain gonorrhea

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　　Expert: In the early 1980s, with the development of foreign and domestic tourism, population mobility was relatively large, so the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases was increasing year by year. According to statistics from the Beijing Epidemic Prevention Station in 1999, the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases was about 40% higher than that in 1998.

　　Moderator: What about sexually transmitted diseases?

　　Expert: STDs are sexually transmitted disease , it is an infectious disease related to sexual behavior. Sexually transmitted diseases include: syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, inguinal lymphogranuloma, etc. These are classic STDs in the past. Due to changes in sexual behavior in the past thirty years, the World Health Organization in 1975 called diseases transmitted through sexual behavior sexually transmitted diseases. According to the situation in my country, eight diseases are now included in the scope of monitoring: AIDS , syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, genital warts, genital herpes and non-gonococcal urethritis, including the gonorrhea we are going to talk about today.

　　Host: What’s going on with gonorrhea?

　　Expert: Gonorrhea is a relatively old sexually transmitted disease, and its epidemic trend across the country is also very serious. From 1991 to 1997, the domestic incidence rate increased from 10.09 per 100,000 to 18.15 per 100,000, so gonorrhea is relatively common in our country.

　　Host: What is the cause of gonorrhea?

　　Expert: Gonorrhea is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and the probability of transmission through sexual intercourse is about 90 to 95 percent. If one is normal male and a man suffering from gonorrhea female If you have had sexual contact, the man has a 20% chance of being infected with gonorrhea.； If a man with gonorrhea has sexual contact with a normal woman, then the woman has a 60% chance of being infected with gonorrhea. ； Gonorrhea can also be transmitted from mother to child.

　　In addition to being sexually transmitted, gonorrhea can sometimes be transmitted through clothing and items containing gonorrhea, but most gonorrhea is still transmitted through sexual behavior.

　　Moderator: Can gonorrhea survive after leaving the human body?

　　Expert: Gonococcus cannot survive in high temperature and dry places. It can only survive for 1-2 hours in dry places and only 13 hours at a high temperature of 39 degrees. It can be killed with ordinary disinfectants, but it can survive on the infected person's clothes for 18-24 hours. Gonorrhea is a purulent infection of the genitourinary system caused by gonorrhea. It can also grow in the pharynx, eyes and rectal membrane.