Daily .. More than a million cases through sexual relations

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of more than one million cases of organized diseases. How dangerous are these diseases to health in general?

More than 1 million people worldwide are infected with sexually transmitted infections every day, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis are the most worrisome.

The vast majority of injuries are preventable and easily treated, but some diseases, especially gonorrhea, develop into drug-resistant forms that are increasingly difficult to treat with antibiotics, the WHO said in a report.

"Sexually transmitted infections are everywhere, it's much more common than we think," WHO's Reproductive Health Officer Theodora Wei told reporters after the data was released.

The report, based on global data for 2016, the latest available data, showed that among men and women aged 15-49 years there were 127 million new cases of chlamydia in 2016, 87 million cases of gonorrhea, 6.3 million An infection of syphilis, and 156 million cases of trichomoniasis.

"May lead to serious health effects"

The World Health Organization said that STIs were "a constant and endemic threat to health worldwide" and had a profound impact on the health of adults and children.

Unless treated, they can lead to serious and chronic health effects including neurological diseases, cardiovascular disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, fetal death and increased risk of HIV infection.

Syphilis alone caused about 200,000 births of dead fetuses and neonatal deaths in 2016, making it one of the leading causes of deaths (both fetuses and newborns) worldwide.

Peter Salama, executive director of WHO's Comprehensive Health Coverage, said the data showed the need for "a coordinated effort to ensure that everyone everywhere has access to the services they need to prevent and treat these debilitating diseases."

Bacterial diseases caused by bacteria can usually be cured and cured, but the World Health Organization study said a recent shortage of global penicillin supply has made it more difficult to control syphilis. Drug resistance in the treatment of gonorrhea also poses an increasing health risk.