Antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea triggers alarm over ‘superbug’?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/08/09 07:03:35

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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.

Katherine 2012/08/09 08:46:38

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They'll find some cure, then a new incurable disease (or strain), then another cure.

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Chukroast 2012/08/09 07:07:21

+1
Better keep it in your pants, guys.

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~ The R... to Chukroast 2012/08/09 07:24:41

I was wondering what happened to 'safe sex' that they're teaching these kids?

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Ben to ~ The R... 2012/08/09 12:20:25

Unfortunately, kids being kids, plenty of them are nodding along to the talks and then doing what they wish safe in the belief that it 'surely won't happen to them'.

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