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There is now a gonorrhea superbug and we can't get rid of it
Sacramento Bee ^ | September 27, 2017 | BY JOSHUA TEHEE

Posted on 09/27/2017 12:11:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s harrowing news for the sexually active: sexually transmitted diseases are getting out of control.

In its annual STD Surveillance Report, the Center for Disease Control saw a record increase in the number of infections of three sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. -- chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.

Syphilis, in particular, is seeing massive outbreaks in places like Fresno, CA, where the disease was almost nonexistent six years ago, according to The Fresno Bee.

In July, the World Health Organization issued a warning about the global rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.

That’s the one that produces a burning sensation and a white, yellow or green discharge in men. There were 470,000 gonorrhea cases reported in the U.S. last year, FYI.

Typically, the disease can be treated with one of several antibiotics, but the WHO is now seeing strains that have evolved to resist most commons antibiotics, NBC reports. A few are almost completely untreatable.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: chlamydia; gonorrhea; std; superbug; syphilis
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

21 posted on 09/27/2017 12:27:01 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sex dolls are looking better every day.


22 posted on 09/27/2017 12:27:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I remember those.

23 posted on 09/27/2017 12:28:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hear syphilis is on the increase in senior apartment complexes.


24 posted on 09/27/2017 12:28:25 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: Slyfox

Waiter, there a spidee bug in my suit.


25 posted on 09/27/2017 12:32:06 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (World's Most Powerful Nation Falls To Invasion Of Mexican Peasants!)
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To: Ambrosia
Gee...it's almost like we learned that indiscriminate fornication was bad for a society especially in orifices not specifically designed for that activity.

Who knew?

< /SARC>

26 posted on 09/27/2017 12:47:52 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Why do those with the least to say do so loudly and often?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...and we can’t get rid of it.”...I thought HRC wasn’t going to run again.


27 posted on 09/27/2017 12:55:03 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: vetvetdoug

Then the gay community should be terrified, they provide the perfect petri-dish environment for new mutations. That’s how bacteria adapts, they constantly mutate but most will die from the same antibiotic, but even if immune, if they aren’t passed on they die. Eventually a mutation happens that current drugs can’t kill. When that happens AND it gets passed around it then becomes a problem.

...and in the gay community, the sheer number of partners they have, along with no protection creates this situation. Of course, then bisexuals pass it on to the hetero population.

It’s just science and statistics, not hate.


28 posted on 09/27/2017 1:01:51 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here’s harrowing news for the sexually active:

I am sexually active, and this news doesn't bother me at all. OH, wait, I am married and only have one sex partner. So its not the sexually active that need be worried, its the sexually indiscriminate. The sexually promiscuous are the ones who need to worry. Why mince words?

29 posted on 09/27/2017 1:08:40 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Paradox
Why mince words?

It is judgmental to observe that some behaviors have negative natural consequences.

30 posted on 09/27/2017 1:09:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sexual revolution ended with a complete victory for viruses
-P.J. O’Rourke


31 posted on 09/27/2017 1:23:34 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39513.gif)
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To: Ambrosia

“...and to smite the earth with any plague, as often as they desire.”


32 posted on 09/27/2017 1:29:05 PM PDT by GBA (A = 432)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sexual morality is what protects you from uncurable STDs.


33 posted on 09/27/2017 1:30:53 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: fuzzylogic
...and in the gay community, the sheer number of partners they have, along with no protection and gross misuse of the anus and large intestine ...
34 posted on 09/27/2017 1:33:54 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Why does it hurt when I pee?”


35 posted on 09/27/2017 1:47:49 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s too bad there is no way to avoid getting STDs.


36 posted on 09/27/2017 1:49:41 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
sexually transmitted diseases are getting out of control.

Thanks, Obama.

37 posted on 09/27/2017 1:53:16 PM PDT by bagster ( Mama tried to raise me better.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease Ping - sexually transmitted diseases

WHO is now seeing strains (global rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea) that have evolved to resist most commons antibiotics, NBC reports.
A few are almost completely untreatable.

38 posted on 09/27/2017 2:51:37 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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39 posted on 09/27/2017 2:59:05 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everybody who is for abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Whenifhow; LS; GregNH; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

hide your children ping


40 posted on 09/27/2017 5:03:59 PM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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