Gonorrhea can be detected by a culture. Treatment consists of antibiotics for both partners. Left untreated, this too can lead to PID in women and sterility in men and women. Syphilis, also a bacterial infection, is a very serious disease that can eventually lead to death. Symptoms include painless sores on the genitals, mouth or rectum followed by a contagious rash that will eventually disappear.
Detection is through a blood test or culture from a sore.
Treatment consists of penicillin for both partners. According to Maj. Ceabert Griffith, physician assistant in the 18th Medical Group and the Health Promotion Flight commander, genital warts, or Human Papillomavirus, are prevalent not only on Kadena but worldwide as well. HPV is a virus that can cause painless, flesh-colored or white warts that may appear around genitals, rectum, mouth or in the throat. There are more than 80 types of the virus and there is currently no cure available the virus will continue to live in the infected person s body.