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Resistant Gonorrhea - Gay, bisexual men should get different gonorrhea treatment
AP Wire (direct feed)
| April 29, 2004
Posted on 04/29/2004 12:15:41 PM PDT by NYer
ATLANTA (AP) _ The government recommended Thursday that doctors switch to a different drug to treat gonorrhea among gay and bisexual men.
The drug Cipro and the rest of the class of fluoroquinolone antibiotics _ long the standard treatment for the sexually transmitted disease _ no longer should be used as a first-line drug for men who have sex with men, federal health officials said. That's because of the rise of drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea among homosexuals.
Cipro and its cousins remain the frontline treatment for heterosexuals with gonorrhea, health officials said, because drug-resistant strains are rare in that group. Nearly 80 percent of gonorrhea cases occur in heterosexuals.
Nearly one out of 20 gonorrhea cases among gay and bisexual men are resistant to Cipro. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending antibiotics such as ceftriaxone or cefixime. Ceftriaxone is less convenient than Cipro tablets because it must be given as a shot. Cefixime is available in liquid form in the United States, but not the pill form, the CDC said.
The CDC warned that drug-resistant strains in heterosexuals are ``likely to increase over time and already might be high enough in some areas to warrant new local treatment recommendations.''
On the Net:
CDC gonorrhea facts:
http://www.cdc.gov/std/Gonorrhea/STDFact-gonorrhea.htm
AP-ES-04-29-04 1504EDT
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: homosexual; homosexualagenda; std
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posted on
04/29/2004 12:15:43 PM PDT
by
NYer
To: Coleus; little jeremiah; scripter
Bump!
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posted on
04/29/2004 12:16:09 PM PDT
by
NYer
(O Promise of God from age to age. O Flower of the Gospel!)
To: NYer
Terrific, the beginnings of another black plague that will be inflicted on us by the gay community.
How long should we wait before they start demanding an inordinately large share of available research funds for another preventable disease?
3
posted on
04/29/2004 12:23:40 PM PDT
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Go Toomey Go!!!)
To: NYer
Just cut it off.
To: NYer
...maybe they could start using bottle brushes to treat such cases...
5
posted on
04/29/2004 12:24:57 PM PDT
by
cweese
To: NYer
Tri-no-asatall
6
posted on
04/29/2004 12:32:07 PM PDT
by
Solamente
To: cweese
Okay! You win. Best post of the day goes to you. LOL
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posted on
04/29/2004 12:32:30 PM PDT
by
vandykelastone
(I'm so glad Goober Pyle is the Governor of New Mexico, aren't you?)
To: NYer
Nearly 80 percent of gonorrhea cases occur in heterosexuals. Another way of say that is that gay men make up 1% of the population and account for 20% of the gonorrhea cases.
8
posted on
04/29/2004 12:44:19 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("See, mother, I make all things new.")
To: cweese
OUCH!!!!
9
posted on
04/29/2004 12:44:46 PM PDT
by
camas
To: NYer
"Gay, bisexual men should get different gonorrhea treatment.."
WHY ?
10
posted on
04/29/2004 1:26:30 PM PDT
by
traumer
To: NYer
Ah! The old bone dance with Mr. Spincter.
11
posted on
04/29/2004 1:30:58 PM PDT
by
jslade
(People who are easily offended, OFFEND ME!)
To: NYer
12
posted on
04/29/2004 1:54:05 PM PDT
by
EdReform
To: Solamente
"Tri-no-asatall" LOL!
To: cweese
...maybe they could start using bottle brushes to treat such cases... Don't give them any ideas...
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:02:31 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: cweese
...maybe they could start using bottle brushes to treat such cases... That's an approximation of what was done to servicemen during WW2. There were no antibiotics.
I know that the Navy issued real-time prophylactic kits to the old salts who asked for them. In addition to condoms, these consisted of treatments involving various germ killing compounds like carbolic acid or worse which were to be applied immediately afterwards.
But these weren't always used, and weren't always effective.
I also know that reports from the old salts who contracted VD about the treatments therefore kept a lot of us young and impressionable sailors on the straight AND narrow path. Thus, we were led not into temptation.
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posted on
04/29/2004 3:46:02 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(John F'n Kerry: "I threw my medals over the fence before I didn't throw my medals over the fence.")
To: Ole Okie
I'm talking about heterosexual relations. Better clear that up.
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posted on
04/29/2004 3:49:06 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(John F'n Kerry: "I threw my medals over the fence before I didn't throw my medals over the fence.")
To: Solamente
"Tri-no-asatall" Is that the generic name for Mycoxafyr?
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posted on
04/29/2004 3:54:43 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
To: Ole Okie
...that's an interesting story. thanks. i imagine the main percentage of the clap (back then) was isolated to hetero relationships...
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posted on
04/29/2004 4:54:40 PM PDT
by
cweese
To: Solamente
How about the cyanide treatment?
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posted on
04/29/2004 6:06:10 PM PDT
by
RightWingConspirator
(Glad that Ted the Boorish Drunk, Hitlery the Witch and John Fonda Kerry are not my senators.)
To: jslade
FYI.....The correct spelling is "sphincter".
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