Gonorrhea, Primary Infection:
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Gonorrhea may display no symptoms, particularly in women.

Infection often starts with only mild symptoms of discomfort with urination. Later there may be frequent and painful urination or defecation; a thick, cloudy, or bloody discharge from the penis, vagina, or rectum; or pain with sexual intercourse. Gonorrhea infection in the throat may present a sore throat only.

Occasionally, gonorrhea infection can spread throughout the body and presents with symptoms of fever, chills, swollen or painful joints, and small bumps on the hands or feet that may be red or purple. This is referred to as the arthritis-dermatitis syndrome.