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Otilia Mårdh

Otilia Mårdh

Medical epidemiologist and scientific officer for STIs, HIV, and viral hepatitis at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm.

Sep 4, 2026

AndreaHOST
5:49
But what would I have to look out for to know whether I have gonorrhea or any other STI, for example?
5:57
Yeah.
5:58
In, for example, 80% of the cases for men, gonorrhea will be symptomatic.
6:06
So there will be a discharge from the penis.
6:10
There could be also pain during release of urine, for example.
6:18
For women, about half of the infections will be symptomatic and there could be also a discharge from the vagina, there could be pelvic pain, there could be bleeding, there could be also in instances where when the infection is not treated and go upwards, there could be actually infections of the reproductive organs.
6:47
And then there could be even instances when women develop infertility, for example.

11 MINS LATER

AndreaHOST
18:08
Is that anything that is specific to this bacterium or how can one explain that there is this issue of drug resistance specifically when trying to treat gonorrheas?

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