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"CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant" - 4/12/2007 4:55:56 PM

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"CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant"

By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 42 minutes ago

"ATLANTA - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is now among the "superbugs" resistant to common antibiotics, leading U.S. health officials to recommend wider use of a different class of drugs to avert a public health crisis.

The resistant form accounts for more than one in every four gonorrhea cases among heterosexual men in Philadelphia and nearly that many in San Francisco, according to a survey that led to Thursday's recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Gonorrhea, which is believed to infect more than 700,000 people in the United States each year, can leave both men and women infertile and puts people at higher risk of getting the AIDS virus."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_he_me/resistant_gonorrhea

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RE: "CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant" - 4/12/2007 6:47:50 PM

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there is also a strain of drug resistant Clamydia out there folks...

My advice to all is to have their goodies tested regularly.....I personally due to medical issues non STD related I get my goodies checked out every 3 months so i get tested every 3 months if i have had a change in partners and every 6 if i havent. Just my humble oinion one can never be too careful in this world unfortunately even those that do not know that they have soomething may inadvertantly pass something along.

I actually know soomeone that thought that he was being too sexually aggressive and that is why he had some blisters on his penis..can you say NO, HERPES....? so it can and does happen more frequently than you may think. watch out for your health and those of your loved ones

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RE: "CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant" - 4/12/2007 9:45:33 PM

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Great advice red. Planned Parenthood is great.
They offer so many important services to low income folks.

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RE: "CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant" - 4/12/2007 11:03:35 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Vendaval

"CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant"

By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 42 minutes ago

"ATLANTA - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is now among the "superbugs" resistant to common antibiotics, leading U.S. health officials to recommend wider use of a different class of drugs to avert a public health crisis.

The resistant form accounts for more than one in every four gonorrhea cases among heterosexual men in Philadelphia and nearly that many in San Francisco, according to a survey that led to Thursday's recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Gonorrhea, which is believed to infect more than 700,000 people in the United States each year, can leave both men and women infertile and puts people at higher risk of getting the AIDS virus."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_he_me/resistant_gonorrhea

That's why I don't have unprotected sex.......oral or intercourse. Lots of people practice safe intercourse but have unprotected oral sex and they think they're being safe. It's scary.

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RE: "CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant" - 4/12/2007 11:59:51 PM

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Okay, and its only at 6% of the gonorrhea found in heterosexual people.

I find it appalling that the CDC does not change their antibiotic recomendations until 5% or more of the drug is resistant. I find it completly discriminatory that gays are allowed to exceed this limit and not have recomendations change, but as soon as straight people are over the limit, its changed.

Imagine if women were getting resistant strains at 25%, but men only at 2%, and the recomendations not changing. We would have major issues!

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RE: "CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant" - 4/13/2007 6:55:08 AM

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I find it appalling that the CDC does not change their antibiotic recomendations until 5% or more of the drug is resistant. I find it completly discriminatory that gays are allowed to exceed this limit and not have recomendations change, but as soon as straight people are over the limit, its changed.

They're probably trying to avoid having it become multiply resistant. Changing the recommendations too early can have the effect of causing strains that are resistant to everything we have before new drugs are available.

That said, it is almost a wonder they're not treating it as an epidemic and eradicating the strains completely. Even treatment resistant strains are vulnerable to bacteriophages; those are expensive, but they get the job done, and the cost could probably be lowered if they were willing to put money into doing it in bulk. There certainly seems to be money for military activity on foreign soil...

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