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Gonorrhea Could Soon Be Untreatable

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The United Kingdom's chief medical officer has sent a warning to all doctors that the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea could evolve to the point where it cannot be treated, returning humanity to the pre-penicillin era. Such an outcome can be delayed, and possibly prevented entirely, if doctors prescribe drugs correctly, Dame Sally Davies claimed. Sadly, this is not currently happening, at least not all the time.

It seems that just as medicine starts to make sex safe from one threat, another rises in its place. This is not entirely coincidental. The arrival of better treatments for HIV, at least in the developed world, may have led to an increased number of people becoming blasé about safer sex practices. This could explain the spiraling rates of diseases such as syphilis and chlamydia, particularly among a generation too young to remember when deaths from AIDS were common in the West.

For gonorrhea, increased opportunities for transmission are combining with the antibiotic resistance seen emerging across many bacterial diseases. In March this year, an outbreak of drug-resistant gonorrhea was reported in Leeds, with cases spreading to other north-England towns.

This is not the first time the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to antibiotics. However, at one time, a variety of spare drugs existed that could be pressed into service when an old one no longer worked. Those days may soon be over, warn infectious disease specialists.

The recommended treatment for gonorrhea is to combine a ceftriaxone injection and an oral dose of azithromycin or doxycycline. This double hit of very different types of antibiotics almost always kills the bacterium, at least currently. Taking only one of the antibiotics opens up the danger of resistance appearing to first one drug and then the other.

Consequently, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV were concerned to discover that online pharmacies were offering azithromycin on its own, while some doctors are prescribing obsolete antibiotics.

Most people infected with gonorrhea show no symptoms, although they can still transmit it. For those who experience symptoms, the most common are yellow or green genital discharge, bleeding between periods and pain during sex or urination. Rarer outcomes include a 20 percent increased risk of prostate cancer, and blindness in children born with the disease.

In 2009, a strain of gonorrhea, called H041, was identified that was untreatable with all cephalosporin-class antibiotics, which includes ceftriaxone. However, only one case of H041 has been reported. Although cases of two other ceftriaxone-resistant strains have been published, it is clear that not every multidrug-resistant strain will spread wildly. Nevertheless, with 16 cases now known from the Leeds outbreak, warning signs are obvious.

The announcement that Truvada can prevent infection with HIV when used as a “morning after drug” has sparked concerns that people will become even more lax about condom use, opening the door to other diseases. These fears are debated, but haven't been helped by poster campaigns apparently advocating condomless sex, as if HIV was the only threat.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

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By *3gam4nMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Great encouragement to practise safe sex-if you needed any

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By *S RachaelTV/TS
over a year ago

Lowestoft

Well, Merry Syphillus and Happy Gonorrhea

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

from what I read in the paper this was due to only one of the antibiotics being given by pharmacists (or Dr's or whoever administers them), not both. It was therefore able to mutate and become resistant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's safer sex, not safe sex... Safe sex is what nuns have!.

What there actually getting irate at, is the lack of new antibiotics.

This is totally a capitalist concern not a medical one, we have the doctors, the scientists, the biologists, the virologists and the chemists...

Were just lacking the. Ooomph

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They've been saying that since 2013. Soon is when exactly?

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By *3gam4nMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Cases diagnosed already is how soon...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cases diagnosed already is how soon... "

Diagnosed when,how many and how long did they take to die?

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By *3gam4nMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Fifteen cases of “super-gonorrhoea” have been detected by Public Health England since March, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV reported.

Drug-resistant cases are rare, the body said, with few reports to PHE’s sexually transmitted bacteria reference unit, though the EU’s infectious diseases monitor has been warning about the growing threat of drug-resistant gonorrhoea for some years

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By *3gam4nMan
over a year ago

wrexham

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/18/drug-resistant-gonorrhoea-outbreak-sparks-england-wide-alert

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i hear there has been an outbreak in leeds!

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By *3gam4nMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Ffs shit getting closer! Soon they'll be issuing onesie-like condoms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The United Kingdom's chief medical officer has sent a warning to all doctors that the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea could evolve to the point where it cannot be treated, returning humanity to the pre-penicillin era. Such an outcome can be delayed, and possibly prevented entirely, if doctors prescribe drugs correctly, Dame Sally Davies claimed. Sadly, this is not currently happening, at least not all the time.

It seems that just as medicine starts to make sex safe from one threat, another rises in its place. This is not entirely coincidental. The arrival of better treatments for HIV, at least in the developed world, may have led to an increased number of people becoming blasé about safer sex practices. This could explain the spiraling rates of diseases such as syphilis and chlamydia, particularly among a generation too young to remember when deaths from AIDS were common in the West.

For gonorrhea, increased opportunities for transmission are combining with the antibiotic resistance seen emerging across many bacterial diseases. In March this year, an outbreak of drug-resistant gonorrhea was reported in Leeds, with cases spreading to other north-England towns.

This is not the first time the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to antibiotics. However, at one time, a variety of spare drugs existed that could be pressed into service when an old one no longer worked. Those days may soon be over, warn infectious disease specialists.

The recommended treatment for gonorrhea is to combine a ceftriaxone injection and an oral dose of azithromycin or doxycycline. This double hit of very different types of antibiotics almost always kills the bacterium, at least currently. Taking only one of the antibiotics opens up the danger of resistance appearing to first one drug and then the other.

Consequently, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV were concerned to discover that online pharmacies were offering azithromycin on its own, while some doctors are prescribing obsolete antibiotics.

Most people infected with gonorrhea show no symptoms, although they can still transmit it. For those who experience symptoms, the most common are yellow or green genital discharge, bleeding between periods and pain during sex or urination. Rarer outcomes include a 20 percent increased risk of prostate cancer, and blindness in children born with the disease.

In 2009, a strain of gonorrhea, called H041, was identified that was untreatable with all cephalosporin-class antibiotics, which includes ceftriaxone. However, only one case of H041 has been reported. Although cases of two other ceftriaxone-resistant strains have been published, it is clear that not every multidrug-resistant strain will spread wildly. Nevertheless, with 16 cases now known from the Leeds outbreak, warning signs are obvious.

The announcement that Truvada can prevent infection with HIV when used as a “morning after drug” has sparked concerns that people will become even more lax about condom use, opening the door to other diseases. These fears are debated, but haven't been helped by poster campaigns apparently advocating condomless sex, as if HIV was the only threat."
cheery subject at Xmas why did you mention it do you have it or know someone on here who has ,hey sexually transmitted problems are rife in this lifestyle hopefully all members are aware of this and take the correct precautions but many pics suggest maybe not

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cases diagnosed already is how soon...

Diagnosed when,how many and how long did they take to die? "

it might not kill you but i am pretty sure it can make you infertile ... so spread it about enough and sex might be the downfall of the human race

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By *3gam4nMan
over a year ago

wrexham


"The United Kingdom's chief medical officer has sent a warning to all doctors that the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea could evolve to the point where it cannot be treated, returning humanity to the pre-penicillin era. Such an outcome can be delayed, and possibly prevented entirely, if doctors prescribe drugs correctly, Dame Sally Davies claimed. Sadly, this is not currently happening, at least not all the time.

It seems that just as medicine starts to make sex safe from one threat, another rises in its place. This is not entirely coincidental. The arrival of better treatments for HIV, at least in the developed world, may have led to an increased number of people becoming blasé about safer sex practices. This could explain the spiraling rates of diseases such as syphilis and chlamydia, particularly among a generation too young to remember when deaths from AIDS were common in the West.

For gonorrhea, increased opportunities for transmission are combining with the antibiotic resistance seen emerging across many bacterial diseases. In March this year, an outbreak of drug-resistant gonorrhea was reported in Leeds, with cases spreading to other north-England towns.

This is not the first time the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to antibiotics. However, at one time, a variety of spare drugs existed that could be pressed into service when an old one no longer worked. Those days may soon be over, warn infectious disease specialists.

The recommended treatment for gonorrhea is to combine a ceftriaxone injection and an oral dose of azithromycin or doxycycline. This double hit of very different types of antibiotics almost always kills the bacterium, at least currently. Taking only one of the antibiotics opens up the danger of resistance appearing to first one drug and then the other.

Consequently, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV were concerned to discover that online pharmacies were offering azithromycin on its own, while some doctors are prescribing obsolete antibiotics.

Most people infected with gonorrhea show no symptoms, although they can still transmit it. For those who experience symptoms, the most common are yellow or green genital discharge, bleeding between periods and pain during sex or urination. Rarer outcomes include a 20 percent increased risk of prostate cancer, and blindness in children born with the disease.

In 2009, a strain of gonorrhea, called H041, was identified that was untreatable with all cephalosporin-class antibiotics, which includes ceftriaxone. However, only one case of H041 has been reported. Although cases of two other ceftriaxone-resistant strains have been published, it is clear that not every multidrug-resistant strain will spread wildly. Nevertheless, with 16 cases now known from the Leeds outbreak, warning signs are obvious.

The announcement that Truvada can prevent infection with HIV when used as a “morning after drug” has sparked concerns that people will become even more lax about condom use, opening the door to other diseases. These fears are debated, but haven't been helped by poster campaigns apparently advocating condomless sex, as if HIV was the only threat. cheery subject at Xmas why did you mention it do you have it or know someone on here who has ,hey sexually transmitted problems are rife in this lifestyle hopefully all members are aware of this and take the correct precautions but many pics suggest maybe not "

Pictures??? Omg!!!

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"i hear there has been an outbreak in leeds!"

You have heard it about 4 months late then. This story is old news now.

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

i believe in the sixties in vietnam soldiers took penicillin before going with hookers, the the term vietnam rose which was resistant to treatment, same as rats they get immune to poison in time, the only answer is to cover up when having sex, there may be only a few cases so it may not be xmas cheer, but this time of the probably more people are having sex while having a good time

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