It is a disease which mainly affects mucous membrane of urinogenital tract. In males, burning feeling on…

It is a disease which mainly affects mucous membrane of urinogenital tract. In males, burning feeling on passing urine, after a yellow discharge occurs, that is accompanied by fever, headache and feeling of illness. Its name is
  1. phenylketonuria
  2. gonorrhoea
  3. AIDS
  4. none of these.

Solution

Gonorrhoea is caused by a bacterium, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It spreads through sexual contact, common toilets and underclothes. Gonorrhoea affects both male and female genitals. The bacterium lives in genital tubes, produces pus-containing discharge, pain around genitalia and burning sensation during urination. It damages the eyes of babies born to infected mothers.

Asked in: NEET 2009 (Mains)

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