Venereal disease: A disease that is contracted and transmitted by sexual contact, caused by microorganisms that

survive on the skin or mucus membranes, or that are transmitted via semen, vaginal secretions, or blood during
intercourse. The genital areas provide a moist, warm environment that is especially conducive to the proliferation of
bacteria, viruses, and yeasts, so a great many diseases can be transmitted this way, including AIDS, chlamydia,
genital warts, gonorrhea, syphilis, yeast infections, and some forms of hepatitis. Also known as a morbus venereus
or sexually transmitted disease (STD). See: sexually transmitted diseases in men, sexually transmitted diseases in
women

Venereal disease: A disease that is contracted and transmitted by sexual contact, caused by
microorganisms that survive on the skin or mucus membranes, or that are transmitted via semen,
vaginal secretions, or blood during intercourse. The genital areas provide a moist, warm
environment that is especially conducive to the proliferation of bacteria, viruses, and yeasts, so a
great many diseases can be transmitted this way, including AIDS, chlamydia, genital warts,
gonorrhea, syphilis, yeast infections, and some forms of hepatitis. Also known as a morbus
venereus or sexually transmitted disease (STD). See: sexually transmitted diseases in me

Treatment
Antibiotics. Antibiotics, often in a single dose, can cure many sexually transmitted bacterial and parasitic infections,
including gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and trichomoniasis. Typically, you'll be treated for gonorrhea and chlamydia
at the same time because the two infections often appear together.

Once you start antibiotic treatment, it's crucial to follow through. If you don't think you'll be able to take
medication as prescribed, tell your doctor. A shorter, simpler treatment regimen may be available.

In addition, it's important to abstain from sex until you've completed treatment and any sores have healed.

Antiviral drugs. You'll have fewer herpes recurrences if you take daily suppressive therapy with a
prescription antiviral drug. Antiviral drugs lessen the risk of infection, but it's still possible to give your
partner herpes.

Antiviral drugs can keep HIV infection in check for many years. But the virus persists and can still be
transmitted, though the risk is lower.

The sooner you start treatment, the more effective it is. Once you start treatment — if you take your
medications exactly as directed — it's possible to lower your virus count to nearly undetectable levels.
Oral Gonorrhea
Cause of oral gonorrhea

Gonorrhea is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The gonorrhea bacteria are most often
passed from one person to another during sexual contact, including oral, anal or vaginal intercourse

syphilis for women

Syphilis for men