Talk:Gonorrhea
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Jesus Christ, I didn't expect to see a gigantic wang when I clicked on this link. Not a big fan of the vagina either. Anyone for deletion? --Kellywatchthestars
- I was a bit startled as well. I moved the pictures down to the symptoms section, so at least it won't be the first thing people see when they load the article. 04:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- Well, it's right on the front again. Somebody delete it please!--Kellywatchthestars
Removed reference to Dr. Stringham from main text since this seems inappropriate for an encyclopedic entry. If you are Dr. Stringham or the person who added this line, feel free to include a link to his webpage in the external links section. (Btw, I couldn't even find him/his email through a quick google search). --R0 17:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
so, uh, a medical student just told me that gonorrhea didn't thrive in the rectum. WHY, WIKIPEDIA, WHY WOULD YOU LIE ABOUT SUCH A THING?
- yes, medical students do know everything.--Hugh7 07:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Gonorrhoea thrives very happily in the rectum, and is a plague in men who have sex with men. It is also more tricky to treat: penicillin doesn't work there because commensal bacteria in the rectum produce β-lactamase that protects the gonococcus from penicillin. Theoretically also a problem if the gut bacteria are ESBL-producing.--Gak 12:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
The original version of this article was taken from the public domain resource at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdgon.htm prepared by the Office of Communications and Public Liaison of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
In current usage, the prefered spelling is everywhere gonorrhea; gonorrhoea is archaic. This should be changed.
- it's still in use here in the English-speaking world. --Hugh7 07:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. Gonorrhea is the preferred spelling only in America. --Gak 12:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I've heard another etymology for 'the clap' being that if it caused obstruction in the penis, a man would clap his hands on it quickly to 'pop' it, causing great pain but temporary relief.
Not being a doc or in any medicine related field, and recalling that this is an encyclopedia, open to everyone (with internet access, anyway), from layman to doctor of medicine alike, what falls under the category of "discharge" for males? Both urine and semen? Something seperate (i.e. pus) that would be "discharged" at the same time as either urine or semen?
- After looking it up the Wiktionary says: “(medicine) (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.” So technically all of the above could be considered discharge.
- Assuming you're urinating because of infection or pathology... 142.177.121.78 06:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
There aren't really any symptoms listed here, just complications (and diagnosis and treatment). So the Symptoms heading is misleading or needs to be filled in. Rainman420 20:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
It incorrectly states that the discharge is referred to as "leet." The correct term is gleet.
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[edit] Llamas?
HiV/AIDS is understood to have originated in chimps. Where did Gonorrhea come from? I hear through the grape vine that it was llamas, but I can't find any credible sources to back this up. Harkenbane 01:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- Harkenbane HIV didnt come from chimps because its called HUMAN immunodeficiency virus and they dont know ehre it came from but ask someone else about the llama thing but i doubt it.
[edit] Treatment
The article talks about antibiotics as a way to treat the disease. Does this mean the disease is a permanent infection of the host whereby it cannot be cured through taking antibiotics? Chris00tt 19:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] U.K. Health Agency?
The article states "In 2000, 358,995 cases of gonorrhoea were reported to the U.K. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) . . ."
There is, however, no U.K. Health agency by this name. It is exactly the name of the main U.S. health agency.
So my guess is either U.K. should be changed to U.S., or the phrase "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" should be changed to the appropriate U.K. agency. Googling, I find the only hit on this phrase is from Wikipedia; these rest make it clear the figure is about the U.S. Hence I have changed the "U.K." in the phrase to "U.S."Daqu13:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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- The UK equivalent is the Health Protection Agency.
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- In fact, I found the figure on the (U.S.) CDC's own website at: < http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats00/2000Gonorrhea.htm >. Since the next phrase was "the worst of which was a Jason Donaghy from Northern Ireland, [his treatment described here]", it is clear that a) a case from Northern Ireland would not be part of the U.S. statistics (all of the 358,995 cases mentioned were from the U.S.) and b) there is no justification for naming and thus violating the privacy of an individual.
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- So I left the description of "his case" in, but removed the name. My strong suspicion is that this case is entirely bogus and respresents vandalism, and should probably be omitted altogether. Evidence that it is bogus, besides the misattribution of "U.K." to the CDC: 0. it has no atribution; 1. it said (and still does) that he was treated "very late in the stage", which is medically meaningless, though evidently an attempt to mimic medical writing; 2. it named the patient, which would never be done normally; 3. it states that it "almost resulted in removal of the testicles", which has a very unclear meaning, if any; 4. it states that "it has been the worst reported case to date", which is ridiculous, since of more than 350,000 cases, how could anyone pick a "worst" ?.Daqu 14:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Daqu 14:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Yikes. Are the graphic pictures really necessary? 60.227.137.148 08:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- All pictures in Wikipedia should be graphic. Text pictures are not nearly as good.--Hugh7 07:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Facetiousness aside, people come to Wikipedia for information. One thing that people who look up gonorrhoea may want to know is what an infection looks like. Hence the pictures. If people don't want to see it, they shouldn't look up gonorrhoea. Furby100 19:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Warren Buffet
"Warren Buffett: Named after the American investor, the name is derived from the color of Mr. Buffett's hair." Which is what? Green? --Hugh7 07:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images
Although the image of the penis and vagina with "G" are all very nice, well you know what I mean, I think a picture an infected mouth and anus would also be helpful, especially the former, since that is the most common place of infection. How can a request be put up for that? Qrc2006 22:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Can't we just leave that to people's imagination? I'm sure the two current pictures will give them enough of an idea... 80.5.205.239 10:27, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Name
This bit about "acute gonococcal perihepatitis" is really a nonsense. I propose deletion. --Gak 12:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
The name is used in this medical description, and since it refers to an infection by gonococcae, it presumably refers to gonorrhoea. Furby100 19:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- "Perihepatitis" means inflammation of the tissue surrounding the liver. [1], [2] In the case described in the cited article, the inflammation was caused by an infection of neisseria gonorrhoeae, but that does not mean that "gonococcal perihepatitis" is the formal term for all gonococcal infections. I'm removing the incorrect text. MrRK 23:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Images were removed, putting them back
Wikipedia is not censored, so those pictures belong there to illustrate the effects of gonorrhoea. I am putting them back, please specify reasons for removal if you wish to remove them again. JONJONAUG 02:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Good for you. As a medical student I need to see images.
[edit] Human only virus?
"Gonorrhoea spreads during sexual intercourse, whereby the infective partner does not need to be human" - according to Kumar and Clark's 'Clinical Medicine' (the medical student's bible), humans are the only host of the neisseria gonorrhoeae virus. 130.209.6.40
- Correct. But according to the report by Kleist and Moi, an inflatable sex doll has been first used by an infected man. The transmission of the disease happened only two hour later when another healthy man used the same doll again. El Suizo 16:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sentence incomplete
What should go at the end of this sentence: "It is transmitted by penetrative anal sex and is diagnosed on rectal swab. It cannot be treated with penicillin because rectal commensals produce." ???
[edit] Changed to gonorrhea
as was the initial article and the next several major edits.
Moreover, the picture's caption reads "gonorrhea," so I feel justified in so changing for consistency, despite the fact that it stood at "gonorrhoea" after "gonorrhoea" was an empty redirect and it was railroaded to "gonorrhoea" and much of the original content changed to fit. 67.185.236.40 01:58, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
