Posted on 08/30/2016 1:48:55 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Growing resistance to antibiotics has complicated efforts to rein in common sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday as it issued new treatment guidelines.
Globally, more than one million people contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD) or infection (STI) every day, WHO said.
"Chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis are major public health problems worldwide, affecting millions of peoples' quality of life, causing serious illness and sometimes death," Ian Askew, head of WHO's reproductive health and research division, said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
More than one million people contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every single day, WHO medical officer Teodora Wi said. Until recently, the three diseases, which are all caused by bacteria, had been fairly easy to treat using antibiotics, but increasingly those drugs are failing, WHO said.
"Resistance of these STIs to the effect of antibiotics has increased rapidly in recent years and has reduced treatment options," the UN agency said. Resistance is caused, among other things, by doctors overprescribing antibiotics, and patients not taking the correct doses
For gonorrhoea for instance, WHO recommends that health authorities study local resistance patterns and advise doctors to prescribe the most effective antibiotic with the least resistance.
For syphilis, meanwhile, WHO recommended a specific antibiotic—benzathine penicillin—that is injected into the buttock or thigh muscle.
Back to mercury and arsenic?
Shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance
A good reason not to sleep around.
I don't know, you tell me.
Re : Post #5 ~ WHO urges shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance.
I don’t know, you tell me. (rimshot!)
Remember celibacy?
Anyone who contracts these diseases ultimately can only blame their own promiscuity!
Abstinence is looking better and better...
"Who" suggests that you keep "What" in your pocket, and stay home.
You know "Where" that is,..right ?
And this is "WHY" !!
Or else keep a 'sock' on it !!
“Anyone who contracts these diseases ultimately can only blame their own promiscuity!”
False. Plenty of people who don’t sleep around end up contracting STDs from spouses who did sleep around.
Who’s on first ????????
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True that !
Why? I don’t know, he’s on third, and I don’t give a damn.
I did a search of “syphilis” a few weeks ago and the image on Wikipedia was something that I wish I had never seen. Words cannot convey the hideousness of this disease.
Re : Post # 10 ~ “Anyone who contracts these diseases ultimately can only blame their own promiscuity!”
False. Plenty of people who don’t sleep around end up contracting STDs from spouses who did sleep around. ~
TRUE. Bur they were victims of their spouses promiscuity, right?
Yep, a very good reason.
We could say that premarital chastity, paired with post marital fidelity, are part of a prescription for taking good care of your health.
Certainly, but then they have something to blame besides their OWN promiscuity, eh?
How many people contract one less often?
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