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The Latest Superbug Is a Super-Scary STD
Hope you picked up one of those free vibrators before the sex toy giveaway got shut down, because sex just got scarier than ever: The latest disease to achieve "superbug" status is -- suprise! -- gonorrhea. Apparently the STD has slowly grown resistant to EVERY antibiotic used to treat it except for one (injections of the ceftriaxone, followed up with oral doses of either zithromycin or doxycycline), and it's only a "matter of time" before that stops working, too. At which point, theoretically, lots more people will be forced to deal with nasty consequences including infertility, increased susceptibility to HIV, and even death.
Considering approximately 700,000 Americans contract gonorrhea every year, this is kind of really bad news. (Yikes, maybe we really SHOULD give up those bikini waxes!)
So how are people supposed to protect themselves from this new bionic strain of gonorrhea (besides growing 70's porn star-style pubes)? Perhaps you've heard of these nifty little devices called condoms? Look, you know the drill. Unprotected sex = bad times, especially now. But until somebody invents a magical multi-purpose STD vaccine, well, that's that.
Incidentally, what doctors really need somebody to invent are new antibiotics to replace the ones that don't work anymore, but unfortunately, "their short-term usage makes them less appealing to pharmaceutical companies than drugs that must be taken over the course of a lifetime."
Or, in other words, pharmaceutical companies don't want to waste time making drugs that won't make them enormous profits. (Thanks, guys!)
Clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off ... The Clap is back!
Do antibiotic-resistant superbugs scare you?
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gigimama
EvalynCarnate
Condoms and Monogamy! I dont mean to sound like a bitch here, but more women (and MEN) than not these days prance around like ingnorant sluts. Yolo, indeed, bitches :-p
hotrdumommy
I agree. Monogamy and Condoms prevent ugly little messes like this from happening. Bed hopping (especially without protection) is not cute. It's not chic. It's not what's in style. Wrap it up or keep it to your self.
Jespren
Meg Moore
BozotheeClown
marabie
Here's an idea! Maybe PEOPLE should quit over using antibiotics and the situation would get better or at least evolution would slow down! The knowledge exists but people are ignorant. Antibiotic research is at a stand still because SUPRISE nature is still smarter than us. Educate yourself with the mechanisms of microbes and their amazing ability to transfer genes, evolve, ect and don't count on a magic pill to make something go away.