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gonorrhea

go nuh ree uh

  • n  a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra

  • When, three years ago, doctors learned the spectacular, four-day, 40 sulfanilamide cure for gonorrhea, they gave a short, loud hail, straightway began the practice of dosing .
  • For Coco is a gonorrhea bacillus, and Drivas, his rival, is syphilis.
  • From 1996 to 2003, total cases of chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis and genital warts among people over 45 increased 127%, from 344 cases in 1996 to 780 in 2003.
News & Articles

  • STD rates increase in El Dorado, Placer counties
    By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee The number of cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea, the two most common sexually-transmitted diseases, rose in Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties from 2011 to 2012, part of a steady, statewide jump, state figures show. For Chlamydia, El Dorado County [...]
    July 4, 2013 - Lake Tahoe News
  • Data Center: STD rates rise in Sacramento suburbs, statewide
    The number of cases of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, the two most common sexually-transmitted diseases, rose in Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties from 2011 to 2012, part of a steady, statewide jump, new state figures show.
    July 3, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee
Quotes

  • Sorrell in ShortNews.com
    If we can talk about herpes and gonorrhea on one page, we should be able to talk about tolerance on the next page,says Sorrell.
  • Jerry Stahl in San Francisco Chronicle
    The starlet whom he allegedly raped with a soda bottle, Virginia Rappe, was no starlet at all but a hooker and a scam artist who, Stahl writes, "gave half the Keystone Cops gonorrhea and the other half lice."

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