God keeps talking to these folks but they just won't listen. Neat tagline!
Posted on 05/08/2004 9:48:58 AM PDT by truthandlife
A drug-resistant form of gonorrhea with an overwhelmingly disproportionate effect on homosexuals is making its way eastward from Hawaii and California, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
The data presented "show that drug resistant gonorrhea is a rapidly emerging health concern, particularly for gay and bisexual men," the CDC's STD prevention director John Douglas told reporters last week.
Incidences of the drug-resistant disease are 12 times higher for homosexual and bisexual men than for other men, based on data acquired in clinics from 30 U.S. cities between 2002 and 2003, the Washington Blade reported.
Homosexual men are resistant to flouroquinolones, a type of antibiotic used to treat bacterial ailments, including gonorrhea and urinary tract infections, said the newspaper, which caters to homosexuals.
Drug-resistant gonorrhea cases among homosexuals jumped from 1.8 percent to 4.9 percent between 2002 and 2003, the CDC said.
Douglas pointed out undiagnosed and untreated gonorrhea also facilitates HIV infection.
"There is mounting evidence these increasing STD rates are fueled by a variety of factors," he said, including relaxed safer sex practices, substance abuse, crystal methamphetamine use and the availability of the Internet for meeting sex partners.
Dr. Kenneth Mayer, medical research director at Fenway Community Health in Boston noted that since gonorrhea is transmitted sexually, if a homosexual man is infected with a drug-resistant strain, it is more likely to remain within homosexual circles and cause the strain to be amplified there, the Blade reported.
"It's always something."
God keeps talking to these folks but they just won't listen. Neat tagline!
Disproportionate? Hardly, considering they make up only about 2-3% of the population.. Unexpected? Again, hardly. Most of these characters are walking petri dishes
Deviant behavior, of course, being ruled out as a contributing factor.
Having learned from AIDs, the sicker segment (I mean sociopathic) of the homosexual community will do all it can to spread the disease to the heterosexual population. Then the calls for celibacy and "good judgement" within the homosexual community will be extinguished in favor of addressing a disease that impacts the general population.
Lesson of the day: Teach your children well, their first mistake could easily become their last.
Hope y'all are spending the weekend with loved ones...
Short answer: no.
Longer answer:
# If not treated early, this infection can cause a serious complication in women called pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can be fatal if it is left untreated.
# Left untreated, gonorrhea can get into the bloodstream causing a serious (and potentially fatal) complication known as disseminated gonococcal infection.
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