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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“SUPER GONORRHEA”.....This so meme-worthy!
time to find a gonorrhea vaccine and force everyone to take it
Simple, just don’t have sex with Chinese spies.
Well in all honesty, that would curb the hit it and quit it sex craze of gen z...
American Super Homos will take to Super Gonorrhea like Super ducks to water
“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.
TV’s not safe for anyone.
It’s where brain cells go to be propagandized before they die.
That comment is strangely ambiguous…
No Chinese takeout for me.
Can you get it from a toilet seat?
There’s a very safe and effective means for avoiding STDs.
Yes there is. Don’t screw around.
What a novel concept.
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.
slawell in danger after sleeping with chinese spy.
Exactly. Swallow well could organize the whole trip.
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