VENERAL DESEASES – INTRODUCTION 2
Syphilis and gonorrhoea are the most serious of the diseases as far as health is concerned. Syphilis, if untreated, can have devastating effects. Gonorrhoea, especially in women, can cause sterility, if it is not treated adequately. NSU is annoying, rather than serious, although it may cause arthritis in a few men. Trichomoniasis and candidosis, which mainly infect a woman’s vagina, causing an irritating, uncomfortable discharge, are annoying, but not life-threatening. Men often do not even know that they have been infected.
The World Health Organisation has stated that the sexually transmitted diseases are now the most common group of diseases found in the world, and that gonorrhoea is the world’s second most common infectious disease (only measles is more common). It has been estimated that over 200 million people are infected with gonorrhoea each year and over 50 million with syphilis. It is likely that NSU is increasing, and in some countries may now occur more frequently than gonorrhoea.
No one knows the number of people infected by trichomoniasis or by candidosis, or the number who have genital warts, but it is considerable.
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