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WHO urges shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance (Update)
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| August 30, 2016
Posted on 08/30/2016 1:48:55 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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WHO estimates that each year, 131 million people are infected with chlamydia around the globe, 78 million with gonorrhoea and 5.6 million with syphilis.
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 antibioticbenzathine penicillinthat is injected into the buttock or thigh muscle.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Back to mercury and arsenic?
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posted on
08/30/2016 1:51:37 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious disease Ping
Shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance
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posted on
08/30/2016 1:51:50 PM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
A good reason not to sleep around.
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posted on
08/30/2016 1:52:10 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
WHO urges shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance I don't know, you tell me.
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posted on
08/30/2016 1:53:32 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Re : Post #5 ~ WHO urges shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance.
I don’t know, you tell me. (rimshot!)
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posted on
08/30/2016 1:56:52 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Remember celibacy?
Anyone who contracts these diseases ultimately can only blame their own promiscuity!
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posted on
08/30/2016 1:58:28 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Abstinence is looking better and better...
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:00:11 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: dfwgator
dfwgator :" WHO urges shift in STD treatment due to antibiotic resistance
I don't know, you tell me. "
"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 !!
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:00:18 PM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
To: heterosupremacist
“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.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Who’s on first ????????
.
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:01:43 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Boogieman
Boogieman :" Abstinence is looking better and better..."
True that !
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:03:13 PM PDT
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Tilted Irish Kilt
( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
To: Mears
Why? I don’t know, he’s on third, and I don’t give a damn.
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:05:04 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
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.
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:08:32 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Coupla stiff doses of this should clear that right up.
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:09:26 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: Boogieman
Re : Post # 10 ~ Anyone who contracts these diseases ultimately can only blame their own promiscuity!
False. Plenty of people who dont sleep around end up contracting STDs from spouses who did sleep around. ~
TRUE. Bur they were victims of their spouses promiscuity, right?
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08/30/2016 2:10:11 PM PDT
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heterosupremacist
("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
To: MeganC
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.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Don't screw around.
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posted on
08/30/2016 2:16:58 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: heterosupremacist
Certainly, but then they have something to blame besides their OWN promiscuity, eh?
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
More than one million people contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every single day How many people contract one less often?
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posted on
08/30/2016 3:19:24 PM PDT
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BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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