/mlpol/ - UK Man has 'world's worst' super-gonorrhoea

So in other news the degenerates keeps marching on towards the sickness of body an mind.

>A man in the U.K. has contracted a strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to the two main drugs used to treat it, according to British health officials.
>This is the latest in a long history of gonorrhea developing resistance to antibiotics – in fact, the World Health Organization has warned that doctors are running out of ways to treat it.
>It's the first report of a gonorrhea case worldwide that is resistant to both ceftriaxone and azithromycin, the pair of drugs typically effective in treating the disease, according to Public Health England, a U.K. government agency. The strain showed high-level resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone.
>The patient in the U.K. was diagnosed in early 2018, and health officials believe he contracted the disease through "female sexual contact in south-east Asia a month prior to symptom onset." The man also had one "regular female partner in the UK," and she has not contracted the resistant gonorrhea, according to preliminary test results.
>After being treated, a throat swab testing for gonorrhea still came back positive. The patient is currently being treated through an IV with a different drug, ertapenem, which is related to ceftriaxone. He's showing signs of responding to the drug, though doctors are still waiting to say whether it is definitely effective.

>Gonorrhea has grown resistant to multiple kinds of drugs, as scientists struggle to come up with other effective, clear options that are well-studied. And as NPR has reported, "experience has shown that once a resistant strain of gonorrhea appears, it steadily displaces those that can be killed with antibiotics."
>In the 1970s and 80s, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea developed resistance to penicillin and tetracycline. More recently it also thwarted fluoroquinolones, a class of drugs that includes Cipro.
>Then, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just one family of drugs – cephalosporins — still worked to treat it on its own. Ceftriaxone, used in the U.K. patient, is an injectable type of cephalosporin.

>The CDC says that "thirty percent of new gonorrhea infections each year are resistant to at least one drug." But this appears to be the first case where it is resistant to both of them.
>The bacterium is able to mutate quickly to defend itself, as Jonathan Zenilman, who studies infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins, told NPR's Rob Stein about another recent mutation.
https://archive.fo/kX2OH

And a litte tidbit about gonorrhoea from an BBC article
>Of those infected, about one in 10 heterosexual men and more than three-quarters of women, and gay men, have no easily recognisable symptoms.
>... one in 10 heterosexual men have no easily recognisable symptoms
>... more than three-quarters of women, and gay men, have no easily recognisable symptoms
https://archive.fo/08mqt

/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Archived thread