SEATTLE – The billboards feature a menacing iceberg, sinking ship and an all-caps message: GONORRHEA ALERT! What do an iceberg and sinking ship have to do with a sexually transmitted disease? It’s not ...

Doctors are alarmed over a new strain of gonorrhea — a common sexually transmitted infection — that is almost incurable. And gonorrhea rates continue to climb: The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The virus is passed along via skin-to-skin contact during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Two vaccines fend off two of the most dangerous types. Low to high. At least 80 percent of women will have it at ...

Public health officials says they have found two cases of gonorrhea that appear to have reduced susceptibility to every kind of antibiotic available to treat them. It's the first time strains of ...

The idea that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) always announce themselves with uncomfortable or visible symptoms is a dangerous misconception that health experts are working to correct. Research ...

Gonococcal arthritis refers to inflammation in a joint as a result of a gonorrhea infection. Symptoms may occur when the bacteria spread through the blood and into the affected joints. It is one of ...