Posted on 03/29/2010 5:34:24 PM PDT by decimon
LONDON (Reuters) The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.
Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhea from Britain's Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs.
"This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said in a telephone interview.
Gonorrhea is a common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection and if left untreated can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women.
Globally, the WHO estimates that there are at least 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections -- including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis -- every year among people aged 15 to 49.
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i wonder how many women under 30 today have genital piercings or sweater puppy jewelry?
or way too many tattoos..like Jesse James skank
or have had real 69 style sex with another woman?
that sort of stuff is off the charts compared to when I was a teen or early 20s...born 1957 here
back then we had a few gals take ludes and act up and do stuff I'm sure they'd rather forget but most girls did not sleep with anyone short of a serious committed boyfriend
my oldest daughter tells me most girls sleep with boys quick...they hang out, they hook up...few really date...they just get together and have sex if the boy has brushed his teeth
it is insanity..
i blame fembots who encourage women to act like rogue men so as to be equals...and tv and pop culture that glorifies women acting like they belong on a Roman barge
one of my best friends caught their 13 year old daughter discussing oral sex as a way to help prepare her for intercourse...they were texting it..her and her boyfriend
and these are church going rural folks who pay attention....
i also blame Bill Clinton...girls today really do think fellatio is not actually sex
end times I tell ya
when the women in culture go to seed, it's over
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Well, there’s always amputation........
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Great Scott! You can't mean...
A dickectomy?
.....This is a very clever bacteria......
This is not a true statement.
A better statement would describe the bacteria as adaptive or as having a diverse drug resistant morphology.
This is not a true statement.
A better statement would describe the bacteria as adaptive or as having a diverse drug resistant morphology.
Giving volition to the simplest creatures is common shorthand. It does give the wrong impression.
Or as Rush would say: A Choppadictomy ( the opposite of an Appendadicktomy)
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