For decades, gonorrhea patients could expect to quickly dispatch the
long-dreaded sexually transmitted disease with a time-tested round of
antibiotics.
But the ever-mutating gonorrhea bacterium is becoming
resistant to the dwindling number of medicines used to fight it, and
public health authorities are raising alarms about the emergence of an
untreatable “superbug” that will reverse decades of progress in lowering
infection and transmission rates around the globe.
On Thursday, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are scheduled to release new treatment guidelines to slow the growth of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea in the United States.
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4 comments:
All of these antibiotic resistant super bugs are happening due to factory farming and the mass amounts of antibiotics used to keep the animals alive that they then feed us. Really everytime we eat a piece of meat we are ingesting antibiotics on a daily basis. The days of family farms with healthy drug free animals has been gone for a long time. We should expect many more super bugs to appear.
Yep, 7:43 and as someone who has been interested in this and a healthy lifestyle in general for years I always found the anti smoking crowd amusing. They don't want to sit in a restaurant and breath
2nd hand smoke all the while shoveling dangerous chemicals and drugs into their bodies from the food they were eating. The food we eat causes more serious health problems then 2nd hand smoke ever will.
I personally would like to see the REAL statistics with regard to exactly what demographic communities
these bacterium/STI are affecting.
I repeat real, not politically correct.
10 years ago, rates were approx. THIRTY times higher in the 15 to 19 African American community and nearly 50 times higher in the homosexual community.
743 also throw in the vast amounts of antibiotics thrown into common commercial products solely for marketing purposes and the over use of medications.
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