Pathways Contact PEIA Home Return to Index Gonorrhea Gonorrhea is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world. A newborn baby can also get gonorrhea during birth if its mother is infected.
Gonorrhea can be symptom-free.
In fact, about 60 to 80 percent of infected women have no symptoms. The signs of gonorrhea can, however, show up within two to 10 days after sexual contact with an infected person. In men, symptoms include pain at the tip of the penis, pain and burning during urination and a thick, yellow, cloudy penile discharge that gradually increases. But gonorrhea can be cured with injections of specific antibiotics. Since many strains of gonorrhea are resistant to penicillin, your doctor will almost always use another medicine.