Posted on 06/02/2016 4:00:15 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Gonorrhea was relatively benign in years gone by, going by the name “the clap” and was easily treated with penicillin.
Now it’s a monster. A super-resistant form is cutting a swath through straight and gay communities.
When it emerged in Leeds last year, the new superbug prompted a national alert when one of the main treatments became useless against it.
The Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection is spread through unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Left untreated, gonorrhoea can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease. Inflammation of the fallopian tubes can cause a blockage which can result in infertility. Gonorrhoea can also be passed on to an unborn baby during pregnancy.
Doctors are afraid the STI could soon become untreatable. While the outbreak started in straight couples, it soon moved on to gay men.
"The problem is [they] tend to spread infections a lot faster simply because this group changes partners more quickly."
As the gonorrhoea bacterium can resist our most powerful antibiotics when used alone, two drugs, azithromycin and ceftriaxone, are used in combination.
However, resistance to azithromycin has developed and is spreading, and experts fear it’s only a matter of time before ceftriaxone fails too.
Dr Gwenda Hughes, the head of the sexually transmitted infections unit at Public Health England, said: “We cannot afford to be complacent. If strains emerge resistant to both azithromycin and ceftriaxone, treatment options would be limited as there is currently no new antibiotic available to treat the infection.”
There’s also a concerted campaign to find the sexual partners of people who have the superbug.
Public Health England warn the emergence of a dangerous superbug is creating a “perfect storm scenario”.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Yes. As it is written.
Good luck with that!....LOL!
Maybe putting up a Wanted poster in all the restrooms of the bars where the homosexuals hang out might help. But I doubt it...........
Now these antibiotics --- even cephalosporin ---are not stopping the new gonorrhea strains, and there's really nothing in the pipeline.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Sorry OP but in my army days gonorrhea was also referred to as the "Clap"........
Best to follow God’s law. Keep laughing. . .
Don't have sex with anybody until you marry. Marry a virgin (or at least someone who's tested clean.) Then have sex only with your spouse, period.
That's the only was to be double-dog sure you won't be culled out of the human race by one of these loathsome diseases.
And it provides yet another incentive, if you need one, to cultivate true and lasting love, and not just be "a sot and thrall of lust"--- as the poet says.
Oh, exactly. Exactly. 100%.
Chlamydia.......Never heard of that untill ten years. Clap I heard of when in the service, 46 years ago. HEARD of, mind you. No. Really.
Well not all of us. MrR and I were laughed at and mocked because we waited until we were married and have only been married to each other.
We did struggle with infertility but laughed when they tested us for all the STDs because of our history which made several people angry about ‘how can you joke about that?” well we can joke about it because we have only been with each other.
Practice safe sex - get married and stay faithful.
Of course, back then, there were basically just to SDI's out there - - syphilis and gonorrhea. Now there are dozens.
And even then the Old Wise Ones told us:
So glad to be monogamous. this is what happens when sex runs rampant. Want to bet this will curb a lot of sex activity for those smart enough to see the dire consequences of changing partners like most change their underwear.
Another round of AIDS if this in untreatable?
Nothing in the story to back up the assertion it started with heterosexuals. Yet they can't help themselves dragging down the traditional norm.
“You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down
Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down”
My OBGYN suggested STD testing. I said why, I’m faithfully married? The answer: you can’t expect him to be.
I said if I found out he was cheating that way, the problem wouldn’t be STD treatment but murder charges, but he knows that, which is why I don’t have to worry about an STD.
It's quite plausible. There are far more heterosexuals than homosexuals, and even if the rates are higher with gays, the sheer numbers are likely to be higher with heterosexuals.
The relevant difference is not "straight" or "gay. The relevant difference is "chaste/monogamous" or "promiscuous".
Promiscuous heterosuxuals have no reason to think themselves exempt from moral censure or public health hazard. Promiscuous heterosexuals are not "the traditional norm."
There is a way to stop it. But for most of today’s society it’s unthinkable.
Yet acts that clearly have a public health impact -- promiscuous sex, homosexuality, even polygamy -- are not only not permitted to be regulated, they are encouraged in every forum from our pop culture to the public schools.
Check out this George Carlin quote (Tagline)
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