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First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America

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Something else for the promiscuous among us to think about_

First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America - US News and World Report

Completely incurable gonorrhea may be at hand
By Jason Koebler
January 8, 2013

The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic has been detected in at least nine North American patients, meaning the era of "incurable" gonorrhea could be close.
 
A reason why abstinence only education is no longer viable.
 
Whoa, just the opposite.
Abstinence only education doesn't work. People will still have sex and with proper sex ed, you can teach them to be at least be safe and prevent the spread. With abstinence only education people will still have sex and just spread it around and it will grow because they don't know about safe sex.
 
So this is what I can use to pep up my self-esteem some in the morning. "Well, at least I don't have antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea."
 
As far as sex ed goes I think that kids should be educated on the danger of STDs and the real risk of unwanted pregnancy while focusing on an abstinence/safe sex approach.

As far as the gonorrhea goes, hopefully there are other antibiotics out there (we have plenty at the moment) to treat it while also raising more awareness about antibiotic resistant diseases.
 
We are creating more and more resiliency because of the antibiotics we have added to our food system. Instead of a simple pill you take for a few weeks, some people now have to resort to intravenous methods to get rid of infections. And it's only going to get worse.
 
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We are creating more and more resiliency because of the antibiotics we have added to our food system. Instead of a simple pill you take for a few weeks, some people have to resort to intravenous methods to get rid of infections. And it's only going to get worse.

yes, the massive amounts of antibiotics given to cattle in their food supply is a major culprit.
 
yes, the massive amounts of antibiotics given to cattle in their food supply is a major culprit.

Any animal that is factory farmed: chicken, pork, beef and turkey. We are creating superbugs.
 
I'm still waiting for the disease where you stick it in and just burst into flame. Sheesh.
 
We are creating more and more resiliency because of the antibiotics we have added to our food system. Instead of a simple pill you take for a few weeks, some people now have to resort to intravenous methods to get rid of infections. And it's only going to get worse.

You said it, sister. I just read an article about red meat and all the bad things that were discovered from all the studies that were conducted, most from 2002 to 2009. Then someone - who obviously wasn't working on a research grant funded by the feds or by their bosom buds at Monsanto - thought about researching red meat from grass-fed non-antibiotic beef that was also not fed anything containing corn. Most corn today is GMO corn. That is an entirely different subject. The research found that real meat like people used to eat 50 years ago is actually good for you! No ****! Imagine that.

Unfortunately damn near all processed food today contains corn sugar that comes from...yep, GMO corn. Sugar is bad anyway, corn sugar is slow rising hell. The other thing most processed foods contain is milk, in some form or fashion. That milk comes from cows that are shot to **** with antibiotics, and we ingest it. Overtime we become resistant to antibiotics.
 
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Abstinence only education doesn't work. People will still have sex and with proper sex ed, you can teach them to be at least be safe and prevent the spread. With abstinence only education people will still have sex and just spread it around and it will grow because they don't know about safe sex.

Correcto Mundo O92....
 
Someone please give me proof that abstinence only education works.
 
Great post! Yes, corn is another big problem all on itself. I laughed the other day when the supermarket I was shopping at thought it would be beneficial to 'brag' about their 'corn fed' cows. Good Lord... are people not even aware that cows are not naturally equipped to properly digest it? Of course this brings us to another problem... the methane coming out of their corn-fed anuses.
 
Don’t worry, if it is legitimate rape your body knows how to fight it off.

Too-Shay...

I'm sure something of that nature will give rise from some truly informed politician.
 
Something else for the promiscuous among us to think about_

Hum. Everyone knows the natural course of un-treatable gonorrhea, right? Remember? Polyarthritis, rash, fever, prostration, pelvic inflammatory disease, pus pockets busting out all over, endocarditis, meningitis, infertility, ...

Just sayin'.
 
Sex, what's that?
 
I just use the method doctors use for hyperactive kids. They give them speed in the for of ritalin... therefore I put some herpes on the gonhorrea. I now have gonhaherpalyphillis. I am indestructable now.
 
A quote on this from something I read on reddit from a seemingly informed writer castigating the sensationalism of the headlines:

Although antibiotic resistance is major emerging problem, this article is very sensational and misleading. They report that the bacteria is resistant to oral cephalosporins which we haven't used as primary treatment for gonorrhea in some time in the US. First line is rocephin ( ceftriaxone) which they say eradicated the infection in all the patients with the resistant strain. They failed to mention that ceftriaxone is also a cephalosporin which still effectively treats gonorrhea.

Right now, the main path of resistance is over expression of efflux pumps. There is a solution to this, we just haven't figured out how to mass produce it with repeatable results.
"Efflux pump inhibitors" is the next big thing.
 
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