Natural gonorrhea strain found that is immune to all existing antibiotics. - Polidicks

[quote]An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health. The team of researchers successfully identified a heretofore unknown variant of the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Analyzing this new strain, dubbed H041, allowed researchers to identify the genetic mutations responsible for the bacterium’s extreme resistance to all cephalosporin-class antibiotics-the last remaining drugs still effective in treating gonorrhea. “This is both an alarming and a predictable discovery,” noted Dr. Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria. “Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it.” “While it is still too early to assess if this new strain has become widespread, the history of newly emergent resistance in the bacterium suggests that it may spread rapidly unless new drugs and effective treatment programs are developed,” Dr. Unemo continued. Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world. In the U.S. alone, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of cases is estimated at 700,000 annually. Gonorrhea is asymptomatic in about 50% of infected women and approximately 2-5% of men. When symptomatic, it is characterized by a burning sensation when urinating and pus discharge from the genitals. If left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to serious and irreversible health complications in both women and men. In women, the infection can cause chronic pelvic pain and ectopic pregnancy. It can lead to infertility, mostly in women but also in men, and it increases the risk of HIV transmission. In 3-4% of cases, untreated infections spread to the skin, blood, joints, or even the heart and can cause potentially mortal lesions. Babies born of infected mothers are at high risk of developing serious blood and joint infections, and passage through the birth canal of an infected mother can cause blindness in the infant.[/quote] [url=http://www.healthmadeeasy.com/2011/scientists-discover-first-gonorrhea-strain-resistant-to-all-available-antibiotics/]Source[/url] Now all that remains is a very virulent strain of the common cold and we all die out within weeks.

AKA The London Strain.

Well shit, I think its about time we just locked our cocks in solid steel boxes and threw away the key.

Mind as well just stick your penis into a septic tank then.

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;34085360]Mind as well just stick your penis into a septic tank then.[/QUOTE] No why would you do that you'd get a terrible infection how is that a "might as well" option come on man.

This is nature's way of telling us to quit fucking around.

Whelp, even less interested in sex. [QUOTE=Bicko Blicko;34085391]This is nature's way of telling us to quit fucking around.[/QUOTE] Goddammit, naturistic fallacy on first page.

[QUOTE=Bicko Blicko;34085391]This is nature's way of telling us to quit fucking.[/QUOTE] more like

this is what happen's after 90ish years of drug abuse.

Hah, being forever alone does pay out after all! ...[img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-smith.gif[/img]

most of fp need not worry

[QUOTE=xxncxx;34086274]most of fp need not worry[/QUOTE] You especially.

Can't wait until the media starts an anti-sex/abstinence campaign from the scare tactics

send them to burn with the lepers

Just another STD avoidable by not being a dumbass, no biggie.

gonorrhea or no the ladies always end up crying after I'm done with them

[QUOTE=The golden;34087119]Stopped reading here. This isn't a documentation or information article, this is just scare tactics. It seems every year there is a new illness that the media has to blow out of proportion.[/QUOTE] Don't be stupid. It's not like the threat goes away once once when media get bored with it. Avian flu is still a threat. Full antibiotic resistance isn't a good thing.

[QUOTE=Kendra;34085091][url=http://www.healthmadeeasy.com/2011/scientists-discover-first-gonorrhea-strain-resistant-to-all-available-antibiotics/]Source[/url] Now all that remains is a very virulent strain of the common cold and we all die out within weeks.[/QUOTE] Yeah, if it wasn't for modern medicine the common cold would kill most people who caught it. ...oh wait no it wouldn't. You watch too many movies.

Great, another thing I [I]don't[/I] have to worry about...

Well, I guess that's that. :suicide:

[QUOTE=Sector 7;34089392]Yeah, if it wasn't for modern medicine the common cold would kill most people who caught it. ...oh wait no it wouldn't. You watch too many movies.[/QUOTE] That's why I said it would have to be very virulent? You need to read better. The common cold is so annoying because no matter how many times you become immune to it, it'll have mutated within days and you could get sick again. The good thing is that the cold has never been strong enough to kill anyone that's not been immunocompromised.

And this is what happens when prescribe antibiotics all the time, surprised this hasn't happened sooner with more viruses to be honest.

Drug resistance IV

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;34092805]And this is what happens when prescribe antibiotics all the time, surprised this hasn't happened sooner with more viruses to be honest.[/QUOTE] Virus != bacteria

[QUOTE=rosthouse;34092929]Virus != bacteria[/QUOTE] Still when used on a mass scale eventually an adaptation occurs leading to resistance to the drug used to treat the problem.

[QUOTE=The one that is;34087089]You especially.[/QUOTE] Why do you rate a shitty comeback as this zing?

[QUOTE=Rankxerox;34092954]Why do you rate a shitty comeback as this zing?[/QUOTE] It's a shitty comeback for a shitty joke.