WiccanLiberal
05-12-2013, 05:49 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/05/05/doctors-warn-aggressive-new-sexually-transmitted-superbug/?intcmp=obnetwork
The antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea HO41 was reportedly discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker.
"This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly," Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, recently told CNBC. "Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days. This is very dangerous."
The result of too many years of incomplete treatment of STD's. Every time a case gets treated for too short a time, the bugs that survive are tougher. If they had stuck to the old wax-based long acting penicillins they might have done better.Used to be sailors coming into a port would go to a clinic with a case of GC and get 2 shots of something called procaine penicillin in the rump. Hurt like a bastard because it was wax-based so it would release slowly and be active in the body for a full ten days. Great thinking when you know you are not likely to see the patient again. Problem is, if you leave people to take their own doses, a lot don't complete the course so end up with persistent infection and resistant organisms.
The antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea HO41 was reportedly discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker.
"This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly," Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, recently told CNBC. "Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days. This is very dangerous."
The result of too many years of incomplete treatment of STD's. Every time a case gets treated for too short a time, the bugs that survive are tougher. If they had stuck to the old wax-based long acting penicillins they might have done better.Used to be sailors coming into a port would go to a clinic with a case of GC and get 2 shots of something called procaine penicillin in the rump. Hurt like a bastard because it was wax-based so it would release slowly and be active in the body for a full ten days. Great thinking when you know you are not likely to see the patient again. Problem is, if you leave people to take their own doses, a lot don't complete the course so end up with persistent infection and resistant organisms.