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Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhea. It is an urgent threat as it has developed resistance to antimicrobial medications. The name of the disease is originated from Greek words where gonos means seed and rhoia means to flow because the pus produced during infection looks like semen.
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