Do you have Super-Gonorrhea?

[cbrunny]

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/john-robson-the-antibiotic-window-is-slamming-shut

Here’s an “end of the world news” item: super-gonorrhea is overwhelming the last antibiotic defences in Britain, so apparently we need new antibiotics. Anything but chastity.

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Two things are ominously true and relevant about this particular gonorrhea story. First is the emergence of antibiotic resistance in any number of diseases that attack you in any number of places. Since the Second World War, we have enjoyed blessed immunity from sudden death by bacterial infection that haunted humans since we first saw the city lights.

We have forgotten what it was like when the president’s son got a blister playing lawn tennis … and died. (Calvin Coolidge Jr., age 16.) And it has contributed to our false sense, not just of security, but of omnipotence and impunity, as well.

It is not immediately obvious why people who embraced the theory of evolution so eagerly expected bacteria not to evolve. But we did.

Hence, second, when people can’t ignore the emerging evidence, they call for more of the same: better drugs, more careful prescriptions, less routine agricultural overuse. Science will find a way so we don’t have to change our ways.

When this newspaper reported briefly that Britain’s on “high alert” because the newest strain of “the clap” (a.k.a., Neisseria gonorrhoeae) doesn’t respond to azithromycin, it cited the country’s chief medical officer warning doctors and pharmacies not to prescribe older antibiotics it is also resistant to. Meanwhile, a longer Washington Post story said that in 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea an “urgent threat,” with about a third of cases resisting at least one antibiotic, so doctors should use ceftriaxone with azithromycin.

Fine … if you want to breed gonorrhea resistant to both. As the Post noted, “Bacteria are fast-evolving creatures” with a creepy capacity to share genes. So “it’s our use of antibiotics that really has to evolve.”

Feel the burn! FOREVER :twisted:

 

[Jaskalas]

We have forgotten what it was like when the president’s son got a blister playing lawn tennis … and died.

That's both new and disturbing to hear.
As for our post antibiotic world... plenty of news articles have been preparing me to expect the worst.

 

[TheSlamma]

See sig, still applies as it did when I set it years ago when you chicken littles were all screaming.

 

[alcoholbob]

Sounds tame compared to Super-AIDS.

 

[Rakehellion]

Do you have Super-Gonorrhea?

Nope, just the regular kind.







D:



Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this three or so years ago. Are we supposed to be re-scared or what? Has anyone died from it yet? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ibiotic-resistant-gonorrhea-is-getting-worse/

 

[Pocatello]

ATOT members have nothing to worry about. Being lonely virgins do have some advantages.

 

[Double Trouble]

Kind of scary that we seem to be heading back to times when even the simplest infection could be deadly. Any kind of surgery -- or even dental work -- can become fatal. I hope science can keep buying us time and coming up with new ways, but I think that's becoming ever less likely.

I'm not concerned about the antibiotic resistant STD's though, glad I don't have to worry about that stuff.

 

[WelshBloke]

See sig, still applies as it did when I set it years ago when you chicken littles were all screaming.

That sig only applies because you don't understand what you're talking about.

Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this three or so years ago. Are we supposed to be re-scared or what? Has anyone died from it yet? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ibiotic-resistant-gonorrhea-is-getting-worse/

Plenty of people have died from antibiotic resistant bacteria. Lots more are going to.


I think that a lot of people are unaware how massively antibiotics changed health care. We are on the verge of having that taken away from us.
There's no scaremongering about it. It's going to fundamentally change the lives of you and everyone you know.

 

[MrPickins]

Plenty of people have died from antibiotic resistant bacteria. Lots more are going to.


I think that a lot of people are unaware how massively antibiotics changed health care. We are on the verge of having that taken away from us.
There's no scaremongering about it. It's going to fundamentally change the lives of you and everyone you know.

So much this.

What some people consider fear-mongering is actually just seeing the writing on the wall.

 

[Jaskalas]

The History of Antibiotics

• Before antibiotics, 90% of children with bacterial meningitis died. Among those children who lived, most had severe and lasting disabilities, from deafness to mental retardation.
• Strep throat was at times a fatal disease, and ear infections sometimes spread from the ear to the brain, causing severe problems.
• Other serious infections, from tuberculosis to pneumonia to whooping cough, were caused by aggressive bacteria that reproduced with extraordinary speed and led to serious illness and sometimes death.

Simply put, disease kills. Infection kills. Before antibiotics every year of your life was a game of Russian roulette with much higher odds of killing you compared to the world you, your parents, and your grandparents grew up in. We're talking about a medical step backwards of 4 generations. When this comes to pass even simple surgeries will have high mortality rates.

And still people are probably too stupid to be told it's happening.

 

[Strk]

Kind of scary that we seem to be heading back to times when even the simplest infection could be deadly. Any kind of surgery -- or even dental work -- can become fatal. I hope science can keep buying us time and coming up with new ways, but I think that's becoming ever less likely.

I'm not concerned about the antibiotic resistant STD's though, glad I don't have to worry about that stuff.

The simplest infection has always been deadly if not treated properly.

Hell, one of the leading causes of heart disease is from bacteria entering the bloodstream via dental caries. The bacteria that causes strep throat causes endocarditis and glomerular nephritis. And all that takes is not taking the medication properly.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Why does it hurt when I peeeeee? That girl from the bus stop gave me super VD! So why does it hurt when I pyeeeeee?

 

[DrDoug]

Why does it hurt when I peeeeee? That girl from the bus stop gave me super VD! So why does it hurt when I pyeeeeee?

My balls feel like a pair of maracas...
My balls feel like a pair of maracas...
Oh god. I probably got, super gonococcus
My balls feel like a pair of maracas

RIP Frank!

 

[NAC4EV]

Feel the burn! FOREVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZCiK8FZx9k

 

[theeedude]

Great time to defund Planned Parenthood, amirite?

 

[UberNeuman]

No. I have Bat-Gonorrhea.

 

[NostaSeronx]

No. I have Bat-Gonorrhea.

I broke you. How have you come back? - Bane'Biotic