Gonorrhea Is Winning
via Here It Comes: Super Gonorrhea :-/ – James Hamblin – The Atlantic:
The list of effective antibiotics has been dwindling as the bacteria became resistant, and now its down to one. Five years ago, the CDC said fluoroquinolones were no longer effective, but oral cephalosporins were still a common/easy treatment. Now injected ceftriaxone is the only recommended effective drug we have left. And it has to be given along with either azithromycin or doxycycline.CDCSo, yes, getting gonorrhea now means that you have to go in and get antibiotics through a needle. And then everyone with whom youve had sex in the last 60 days has to get tested, too.
Once gonorrhea becomes resistant to the last of our cephalosporin antibiotics — “its only a matter of time,” according to Dr. Gail Bolan, Director of STD Prevention at the CDC in todays announcement — we will have no treatment. Then when it gets into your bloodstream, it will be lethal.
I always have this sense that someone will figure it out before that time comes, but there is very little research and development going on right now in this area. Dr. Bolan mentioned one set of ongoing clinical trials.
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I’m not going to say it. You say it.
God gave man an owner’s manual, in the form of Judeo-Christian teachings. He loves us and wants us to be happy and healthy in mind, body and soul. If men misuse their bodies, they won’t last as long or work as well.
Ha!
Ha! Right back at you. Go stick it anywhere you want. There’s a price to be paid. And it will be in this life or the next. You’d better hope it can be paid before the train leaves the station.
Actually, I was laughing at Josh’s witty first post, setting up the smash for the subsequent posters. I quite agree that this is a serious problem, and that the sexual libertinism in our culture aggravates it.
Thank you, God, for my beautiful, gorgeous and loving wife. Our love for You and for one another protects us from the filth and nastiness in the world today.
Amen.
In our supposed science-obsessed society it is amazing that nobody seems to be actually all that concerned about why this particular disease happens to be getting to the point where is can’t be cured by medical science. Some stories I have seen on this topic approach this coyly: they mention the fact that many of those who suffer from this disease also have problems with HIV. Of course we all know that ‘super gonorrhea’ exists because of the promiscuous and irresponsible sexual activity of gay men. Is it so difficult to say it?
Simple answer to this one – don’t treat sex as just another form of recreation you engage in when you’re drunk and bored on a Friday or Saturday night.
Another example of Darwin still hard at work. There are any number of other feared afflictions that were deemed totally eradicated by modern medicin, and then by some miraculous ‘Act of God’ or maybe a more sinister force came back stronger than ever.
Evolution abides.
Only for the virus.
“Then when it gets into your bloodstream, it will be lethal.”
I don’t mean to minimize the serious problem on antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. But it has always been rare for gonorrhea to be a lethal disease. Even before the existence of any treatment, gonorrhea was a disgusting disease that was painful and could cause sterility, but it was very rarely lethal. (Syphilis was the lethal STD.) It can kill you via the ectopic pregnancy it can cause, but even with no treatments you have to be exceedingly unlucky to get a fatal blood infection. So the words “when” and “will” in the above quote are not accurate.
At a time when we need R & D from the drug companies and medical device producers in the worst way, we have a gubmint concerned primarily with insurance coverage for illegal immigrants, dead beats, and those who just plain don’t want it. That same gubmint in the person of the Democratic Party rammed through a health care bill that will cripple drug R&D and hardware research.
To destroy what was the best system in the world for the sake of ideology is criminal. RBC’s.
The problem is that we have too many antibiotics that have been used indiscriminately for too many years. Norway ELIMINATED all antibiotics EXCEPT for very rare cases and they eliminated MERSA, the flesh eating disease and many others.
Idiots have got to stop having sex with anyone who rolls over. Promiscuous sex lowers the immune system and voila… gonorhea and a multitude of diseases from unhealhy behavior.
People condemn Biblical teachings because they think that they are based in spirituality they don’t believe in. That’s as may be, but if you read through it and think about what you’ve read objectively, what you find is that in the main the moral code in there simply makes common sense. And it works. Sure, you can’t do everything you want to do. But follow those precepts and you’ll find you generally will be able to do everything you need to do.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Gonorrhea (PETG) would disagree that novel antibiotics are needed.
They believe that all infected lifestyles are equally valid, and that only fascistic humans would deny their fellow human beings the right to be proudly gonorrheic.
Two fimbriae up for PETG!
This is why I’m a wanker. That’s not a sin is it?
Its the Gon-o-ka-ka-khackus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiu6DFXeF9A