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‘Nightmare’ scenario as gonorrhea at epidemic levels, resistant to antibiotics, CDC warns
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Wed Sep 18, 2013 14:43 EST | by Thaddeus Baklinski

Posted on 09/18/2013 1:07:37 PM PDT by topher

ATLANTA, GA, September 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warns that not only are new gonorrhea infections at epidemic levels in the US, but the sexually transmitted disease is becoming untreatable because "Neisseria gonorrhoeae," the bacteria that causes the disease, has become resistant to the antibiotics used for treatment.

In their report the CDC has, for the first time, prioritized bacteria in their report into one of three categories: urgent, serious, and concerning. Along with gonorrhea, two other antibiotic resistant bacteria, Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which includes E.coli, are listed as "Urgent Threats." The categorization means that medical science has just about run out of ways to treat infections caused by those bacteria.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; gonorrhea; std; sti; untreatable
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Condoms are not the answer.

Maybe abstinence should be promoted more...

1 posted on 09/18/2013 1:07:37 PM PDT by topher
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The stats about Gono are mind-blowing:

Far north of 90% of the infected are black males.

Not over half, or three-quarters.

The problem is very, very clear.


2 posted on 09/18/2013 1:09:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: topher

If it feels good do it! Yeah, right.


3 posted on 09/18/2013 1:11:01 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: topher

Funny thing. They only sex ed I got from my father when I started dating, he said, “Greg, sometimes it’s just better to keep your peter in your pocket.”

Never had an STD.

Always remember that. Didn’t need to have 1,000’s of dollars of sex ed classes at taxpayers expense.

guess we were just more responsible back then.


4 posted on 09/18/2013 1:19:09 PM PDT by bobo1
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Beat me to it....No...they pass out condoms in our schools....11 years old...


5 posted on 09/18/2013 1:20:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: topher

http://www.smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=814


6 posted on 09/18/2013 1:23:35 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Condoms in school always remind me of a friend who taught sex ed to teen mothers in high school. (Yeah I know).

She was showing them how to deploy a condom when a girl asked “What if he won’t wear it?”. My friend responded “Say no to sex with him”. The girl said “If I could say ‘no’, I wouldn’t be here”.


7 posted on 09/18/2013 1:23:54 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: topher

It’s only a nightmare to the promiscuous. Abstinence works 100% of the time.


8 posted on 09/18/2013 1:24:57 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: gaijin

Are non-monogamous individuals about to come under a little evolutionary pressure?
Maybe having frantic sexual contact at random is harmful, and monogamy is healthy.

Who’da thunk.


9 posted on 09/18/2013 1:25:50 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: gaijin

I’m studying the Craigslist vector.


10 posted on 09/18/2013 1:26:29 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: bobo1
My father quite simply put the fear of God in me at an impressionable age. Proud to say that my wife of 31 years is the only...
11 posted on 09/18/2013 1:27:37 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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keep the line zipped or keep the rascal wrapped


12 posted on 09/18/2013 1:28:08 PM PDT by lesko
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It’s only a nightmare to the promiscuous. Abstinence works 100% of the time.

Or monogamous commitment in marriage.

Sex only needs to be rendered "safe" when it is perverted into a dangerous form.

13 posted on 09/18/2013 1:28:53 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

Maybe Obummer should be pushing for common sense comprehensive sex reform.


14 posted on 09/18/2013 1:30:55 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: lesko

Condoms are verging upon useless with bacterial infection. Contact anywhere on the body with infected tissue can result in passing on the infection. Unless someone comes up with an impermeable full body condom, this isn’t stopping until the behavior stops, whether that is due to behavior modification or lack of individuals behaving in this manner.


15 posted on 09/18/2013 1:32:22 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: topher

The population with the fastest growing cases of STDs are found in nursing homes.


16 posted on 09/18/2013 1:33:39 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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The stats about Gono are mind-blowing:
Far north of 90% of the infected are black males.
Not over half, or three-quarters.
The problem is very, very clear.

Same scenario as when the government spent years and millions of dollars trying to convince us that the entire population faced the same level of risk from AIDS as the queers.

After 30 or 40 years of government arrogance and nuclear-grade stupidity is there any wonder that no one believes a thing a government agent or official says?

Political Correctness kills in many different ways.
And the federal government has managed to find and use most of them.


17 posted on 09/18/2013 1:33:43 PM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you donÂ’t need to be mystified about a motive.)
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"Neisseria gonorrhoeae"

I got $5 that says we run across that as someone's name in a Chuck-E-Cheese fight thread before the year is out.

18 posted on 09/18/2013 1:34:29 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Dude...gonorrhea and cheese in the same post...lost my appetite for the month.


19 posted on 09/18/2013 1:36:11 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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Sorry, that was rather thoughtless. ;)


20 posted on 09/18/2013 1:36:58 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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