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Next epidemic to spill out of China could be SUPER GONORRHEA - where rate of antibiotic-resistant STIs are 40x higher than US and UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | March 28, 2024 | CASSIDY MORRISON SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER

Posted on 03/29/2024 6:00:33 AM PDT by Jonty30

China, known as ground zero for the Covid pandemic, may be fueling a global rise in a new infectious disease: super gonorrhea.

Up to 98 percent of bacteria samples taken from patients with the STD across 13 Chinese provinces had the ability to sidestep frontline antibiotics, according to a new CDC report.

Gonorrhea had been effectively evading medications for years, but the chief worry among researchers is that China is reporting rates of a strain resistant to one of the last remaining effective antibiotics 40 times higher than those in the US, UK, and Canada.

In 2022, researchers affiliated with the CDC in China collected more than 2,800 bacteria samples from patients with gonorrhea.

Over 97 percent of the samples were resistant to the drug ciprofloxacin, commonly known as Cipro, while 78 percent resisted treatment with penicillin, another ubiquitous antibiotic.

Roughly 17 percent of samples were resistant to azithromycin and cefixime, while eight percent were immune to the current standard of care, ceftriaxone.

The percentage of gonorrhea bacteria strains resistant to ceftriaxone has risen from 2.9 percent to 8.1 percent, which is much higher than what is reported in other countries.

For instance, in the UK in 2022, only 0.21 percent of strains showed reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: cdc; cefixime; ceftriaxone; china; ciprofloxacin; gonorrhea; penicillin; sti; supergonorrhea
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To: Jonty30

“SUPER GONORRHEA”.....This so meme-worthy!


21 posted on 03/29/2024 6:45:51 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: Jonty30

time to find a gonorrhea vaccine and force everyone to take it


22 posted on 03/29/2024 6:47:02 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: Jonty30

Simple, just don’t have sex with Chinese spies.


23 posted on 03/29/2024 6:47:34 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Jonty30

Well in all honesty, that would curb the hit it and quit it sex craze of gen z...


24 posted on 03/29/2024 6:48:41 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Jonty30

American Super Homos will take to Super Gonorrhea like Super ducks to water


25 posted on 03/29/2024 6:51:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Ikeon

“They advertise aids drugs all the time on TV, soon to see “the Jack” commericals?
TV was safer for kids when the advertised cigarettes on TV.”

I’d estimate that 80% of the commercials now are big pharma medications for one thing or another. I have to wonder how much of that is programming for Americans ... to constantly see drugs advertised and make them think they’re needed.

Dependency on prescription drugs is still dependency. And I know both of my parents and several other family members had (emphasis on past tense) a dozen or more pills they “supposedly” needed to take every day to stay alive. Both parents ended up on dialysis, btw.

The result is... I loathe even having to take an aspirin now. But until they come up with a super-bug that kills kidneys, mine seem to be fine... so far.


26 posted on 03/29/2024 6:51:41 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Ikeon

TV’s not safe for anyone.

It’s where brain cells go to be propagandized before they die.


27 posted on 03/29/2024 7:10:42 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: House Atreides

That comment is strangely ambiguous…


28 posted on 03/29/2024 7:11:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Reno89519
Simple, just don’t have sex with Chinese spies.

Well, that advice deeply saddens Eric Swalwell.
29 posted on 03/29/2024 7:12:57 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jonty30

No Chinese takeout for me.


30 posted on 03/29/2024 7:14:33 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Jonty30

Can you get it from a toilet seat?


31 posted on 03/29/2024 7:53:25 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Jonty30

There’s a very safe and effective means for avoiding STDs.


32 posted on 03/29/2024 7:54:40 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom

Yes there is. Don’t screw around.


33 posted on 03/29/2024 7:56:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (A rich man is called a sugar daddy. A poor man is called into HR.)
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To: Jonty30

What a novel concept.


34 posted on 03/29/2024 8:01:38 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Very little to worry about it one doesn’t borrow from the nookie bank.
Plus they haven’t mentioned if this strain is not symptomatic. If no symptoms are noticed after infection...sterility can ensue if the reproductive tubing is blocked on either sex.


35 posted on 03/29/2024 9:07:20 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Jonty30

slawell in danger after sleeping with chinese spy.


36 posted on 03/29/2024 10:23:00 AM PDT by coalminersson (since )
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To: HYPOCRACY

Exactly. Swallow well could organize the whole trip.


37 posted on 03/29/2024 12:17:40 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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