Currently, the CDC recommends the following treatment for gonorrhea: ceftriaxone, 250mg IM plus a single dose of azithromycin, 1 g, orally. Furthermore, if possible, the patient's sex partners from the past 60 days should be evaluated and similarly treated (the CDC terms this Expedited Partner Therapy or EPT).
The Standards of Learning for Economics and Personal Finance present economic concepts that help students interpret the daily news, understand how interdependent the worldâs economies are, and anticipate how events will impact their lives.
Incidence should not be confused with prevalence, which is the proportion of cases in the population at a given time rather than rate of occurrence of new cases.Thus, incidence conveys information about the risk of contracting the disease, whereas prevalence indicates how widespread the disease is.ncidence is usually more useful than prevalence in understanding the disease etiology: for example, if the incidence rate of a disease in a population increases, then there is a risk factor that promotes the incidence.