2 – 14 days

Incubation period is 2 to 5 days. However, overuse of antibiotics in recent years makes the symptoms relatively silent.

• Men: frequent urination, stinging, a pus-like discharge and pain in the testicles.
• Women: Less obvious or no symptom at all. Frequent urination, stinging; a small percentage of patients have abnormal, viscous vaginal discharge in yellow or green color.
• Throat infection: Infected through oral sex, can cause sore throat.
• Rectal infection: Infected through anal sex, can cause anal pain and itching, or abnormal discharge.
• Eye infection: After gonorrhea has infected an eye, giving rise to pain, swelling and red eye symptoms.

• Men: prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis, inflammating vas deferens, epididymitis and ospiritis.
• Women: salpingitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility
• Pregnant women: eyes of a new born baby may get infected during delivery, blindness is possible.
• Systemic involvement can cause arthritis, meningitis and myelitis