Posted on 10/19/2016 5:55:11 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Infections from these three sexually spread diseases have hit another record high in the U.S.
Chlamydia was the most common. More than 1.5 million cases were reported in the U.S. last year, up 6 per cent from the year before.
Nearly 400,000 gonorrhea cases were reported, up 13 per cent.
And there were about 24,000 cases of the most contagious forms of syphilis, up 19 per cent.
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An estimated 20 million cases of sexually transmitted infections occur each year in the U.S.
The worrying new figures come amid fears sexually-transmitted diseases could soon become untreatable as infections build a resistance to antibiotics.
Last month, the WHO updated its guidelines on how to treat chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis for the first time since 2003.
Together, the diseases infect 200 million people every year.
They are normally treated with a short and simple dose of antibiotics. But at the rate the diseases are developing, it is just a matter of years before this method becomes ineffective.
Crucially, doctors must stop over-prescribing antibiotics, and patients must be vigilant about taking the correct doses.
'Resistance of these STIs to the effect of antibiotics has increased rapidly in recent years and has reduced treatment options,' the UN agency said.
Antibiotic resistance also exists in chlamydia and syphilis, though it is less common.
The CDC recommends treating the infection with a combination of two antibiotics: azithromycin and ceftriaxone.
The infection has already become immune to penicillin, tetracycline and fluoroquinolones.
Increasingly, gonorrhea is building up a resistance to the individual drugs.
When left undiagnosed and untreated, the three diseases can have serious consequences, causing pelvic infamatory disease and ectopic pregnancy in women, and increasing the chances of miscarriage, stillbirth and newborn death.
It can infect the genitals, rectum, and throat.
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The anti-GMO campaigners should switch to something that really would have a major public health impact.
That's supposedly the big "new" factor.
Gay guys are, of course, way WAY up there. Lesbians not so much.
We’d all be better off if we could behave ourslves, but we’re all human and terribly fallible.
This spread of STDs can probably be traced to the extreme mobility of contemporary society and the practice of ‘barebacking.’
Anonymous sex in bath houses certainly hasn’t helped matters.
Dating apps are understandable but sex apps are just weird.
Hey, in a world where they let the crazies run free I am going to go be at my most vulnerable with a total stranger!
At least on a date you are in public and can yell for help.
A Google image search for that graph currently shows six hits, only four of which are relevant. One of those is to the Daily Mail (which I linked), one is to an international news website called Capital Bay News, one is to an Internet forum, and one is to a previous FR post of mine.
I suspect that the graph is simply too politically incorrect to publish.
Count yourself among the lucky few who will ever see it.
Political correctness kills — in this case, it’s killing people the politically-correct purport to support.
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