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Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug
WrongSizeGlass writes "Reuters is reporting that Gonorrhea risks becoming a superbug: 'The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.'"
I've got the cure!
It's called a condom and not screwing nasty hoes!
Gonorrhea? I thought we had that one licked.
Thank god we all agree that teaching adolescent kids about condoms is a good idea, or this could get really become a big problem.
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Perhaps in the eyes of the overlords, or perhaps evolution, STDs are a "feature not a bug" situation, a form population control. Reducing numbers through the attempt to increase numbers. I wonder if we should start including a Trojan constant in our population growth and decay models. Combined with the social network clusterfuck, perhaps we need a digital vaccine. Hope your not allergic to PCillin.
While on this line of thought, I would liken using Norton to wearing 8 condoms, all which having been poked with a needle, and Spybot Search & Destroy being the "Pull-Out" contraceptive method, and disconnecting from the internet altogether being like a hysterectomy. Unfortunately, we can't forget Live OneCare, which is like wrapping it with toilet paper, drinking a fifth of tequila, taking two viagras, and then wandering around Mexico City.
What was my point again?
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Howsabout people stop having unprotected sex with people with gonorrhea? I realize that people may lie about not having it or something similar, but one's policy should be use a rubber unless one is very, very certain it's safe.
Speaking as one who regularly succumbs to propositions from strange attractive sexually promiscuous women, I would rather be gorgeous and infected than germ-free and ugly.
Clearly, the geeks shall inherit the Earth.
Do you really think it's self-righteous, hedonistic, and narcissistic to have sex? It's how you got here.
Live a little!
Sorry, did you say something? I was too busy having sex, which I, being a youth, do constantly.
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers whose brains are still trying to develop good impulse control always think rationally and choose abstinence when a member of their preferred sex is hot to trot for them. This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
Where were you when I had mod points? ... that's not such a good question, is it.
Stupid people should die. But if that were true, Fox News would be out of business, wouldn't it?
Besides, it's not my job to demand people die. Are you saying that you want people to die just so you don't have to pay the same goddamn premiums you already pay for private healthcare?
On the one hand, if you're playing around without wearing a condom, then you're a Darwin Award.
You heard it here first on slashdot, folks: a claim that unprotected sex will lead to natural selection AGAINST you for that behavior.
I have to agree that if we all don't use condoms, that will definitely cause the extinction of the human race.
Hedonistic? Yes. Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure as the goal of life. I'd say sex qualifies.
Narcissistic? Not necessarily, but it you're having sex without thought of the consequences - especially unprotected sex - then yes, I'd say it does.
Self-Righteous? No. But being self-righteous makes you less likely to accept any criticism of your lifestyle, which is what the GP was trying to say.
All in all, those three qualities in a society makes it likely they will have lots of sex (hedonism), and in doing so spread disease (narcissism) , while being unlikely to change when someone tells them it might be a good idea (self-righteous).
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Here is a take on your intellect: You are a fucking retard. Here is the same situation, without health care.
Some asshole sleeps around without a condom, and because they do not have health care, they do not get it treated and spread it to more people, one of whom is your mom.
or
Some asshole sleeps around without a condom, gets gonorrhea, and starts taking antibiotics without medical consultation and so on and so forth until the disease becomes drug-resistant AS THE ARTICLE IS DISCUSSING RIGHT NOW.
or
Some asshole gets a physical at the doctor, finds out about the consequences of having sex without a condom and sees some lovely pictures of herpes/chlamydia/gonorrhea and the asshole starts using a condom from then on and the spread of disease is stopped at a lower cost to society than having X amount of people needing treatment for STIs.
Grow the fuck up, biology and disease prevention have nothing to do with politics.
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When I was a sexually active youth (back in the 60's and 70's) I managed to get the clap at least 3 times. The first time, I was in Mexico. I went to the pharmacy and got a lot of oral penicillin. Dosed myself with a couple of million units a day for a week or two. Bingo - cured. The next time, I was in the US and went to my family doctor. He prescribed some new "stronger" antibiotic for it. Guess what - it didn't work! I went back to the massive "beat it to death" penicillin doses and cured it post haste. The last time I got it, I went to the P-cure again. Two weeks, gone.
Frankly, I don't think most doctors know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with this cruft. They are the reason why we are getting these "super bugs". It's a matter of "try a little of this, and if that doesn't work, try a little of that". As a result, both "this" and "that" make the little buggers stronger. My philosophy when it comes to infections - hit them hard and don't let up until they are dead, dead, dead!
How is this news for nerds?
Being nerd protects me quite well from such diseases. Is this some sort of appeal from non-nerds for our help?
Well, it's a good thing that you have such great discipline regarding your sexuality.
Is there anything in yourlife that you consume even though you know it's bad for you? Smoking? Any particular food? Or are you just the model of perfection with no vices whatsoever? Or do instead lead the most boring life ever, and so never have to worry about these things?
This isn't about what should or what could be. This is about the reality of things. Nobody advocating sex ed will deny that abstinence is the only 100% prevention for abstinence, but the reality is that some people will have sex in spite of the consequences, and so they are entitled to the most medically accurate info about it, and how things like condoms will mitigate the risks.
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I wish people would stop peddling this ignorant crap. The Catholic church is against condoms, yes, but it's also against extramarital sex. If you're really an observant Catholic the lack of condoms isn't going to increase your risk of contracting STDs.
Catholics having extramarital sex aren't acting within the tenants of their faith, and if they don't wear condoms it's because nobody likes to wear condoms, not because of any church teaching.
It does not take doing a ho to get it. [...] it is not who you screw, but who the person 5 removed from you that had it and passed it on
True true.
This is no different than HIV
Except, on the plus side, it's currently curable, and on the minus side it's a hell of a lot more common.
There have been several studies (third question in the interview, feel free to google for more information) showing that the areas of the brain linked to complex decision making and impulse control are still under development in the adolescent brain, and in fact continue to develop into the 20s. These findings may explain, in part, why teenagers are more prone to risky behavior (such as, say, unprotected sex) than older people. In short, studies indicate that hormone-soaked teenage brains do NOT have all the physiological necessities for impulse control.
hedonism is the pursuit of everything in EXCESS. having sex is just normal not in anyway an excess.
narcissism is a far more extreme psyhcological condition then just being horny and acting on it. that'd be like calling someone narcissistic just because they took the last coke out of the fridge.
This idea that we somehow have more sex now then in the past is the biggest load of bullcrap. guess what? people fuck, your grandma had he same urges in the 1920's as you have now. the biological drive is exactly the same, it's just socially we are less afraid to express it, so you hear about it more.
the idea that teenagers won't fuck is laughable.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Are Catholics forbidden from marrying non-Catholics ?
A few weeks back Slashdot ran a story about MRSA and other 'superbugs' being fought in (I believe it was) Finland.
The cool thing about it is, for at least a decade they've been using the same level of sanitation as 50 years ago: steam-cleaning the floors and walls, not using HAND SANITIZER all the time, and letting the place remain a bit "dirtier" than our own hospitals. THEY HAVE THE LOWEST NUMBER OF SUCH CASES.
It makes sense; let the lesser-bugs go, kill with dumber, more-trusted ways that kill ALL the bugs or none at all, and the superbugs have to mate with lesser-bugs. This bleeds out the specialty features.
Meanwhile, everytime someone shakes hands in America, they hit it again with the sanitizer. It's just a never-ending "Germ Olympics" where only the strongest survive.
We really need to consider 'alternative' means like this, and I think you've hit the penis on the head! :>
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Wrong. Antibiotics are there to kill off all the non-resistant strains until the amount of bacteria low enough so the immune system can take care of the rest, this way preventing that the resistant strains survive.
If an antibiotic treatment suddenly stops before all non-resistant strains were killed, the resistant strains survive and multiply and soon become dominant strains.
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Fail, fail, fail.
Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure. Where you got your definition from, I don't know.
Fail, fail, fail.
Narcissism is a personality trait. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a psychological condition. The person who took the last coke out of the fridge would be narcissistic - to a degree. There is an element of narcissism in all of us. The OPs use of the term indicates he thought that there is an excess of narcissism in our society, not that he thought everyone was pathologically narcissistic.
This idea that we somehow have more sex now then in the past is the biggest load of bullcrap. guess what? people fuck, your grandma had he same urges in the 1920's as you have now. the biological drive is exactly the same, it's just socially we are less afraid to express it, so you hear about it more.
Yeah, it just used to be that people married early, and their impulses tended to be directed more towards a single person (not exclusively, of course, but more so than today). Monogomy tends to retard the spread of STD. It's no coincidence that the rapid spread of STDs coincided with the sexual revolution (and with rapid, affordable intercontinental travel).
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Hehe... You said OVERCOME. Didn't know that was possible.
The game.
No, the *map* showed China as country with *universal* healthcare.
I suspect they aren't trying to cure it of anything, so that'd be a social/political problem rather than a problem with the medical system.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers ... always think rationally
So, we let them run wild, and not even try to impart some self-discipline?
No wonder this country is in it's current shit pile state of affairs, sinking even deeper.
This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
Re-read my post. Nowhere did I say "Only teach abstinence." It's why there are speed limits and safety belts.
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Not very hard.
That's what she said
Well, depending on how the tenant pays the rent...
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When I was at the Natural Food store the other day, I noticed a probiotic in the refridgerator display called femdophilus. This product has two strains of lactic acid-producing bacteria that are well suited to colonizing the vagina.
Here's another one: http://www.gynophilus.ca/
I have an anecdote about conventional medical thought on bacteria, fungi, and the vagina. I took a late trip home a few months back, and Loveline came on the radio. I listened fairly regularly a long time ago, so I 'tuned in' for old times' sake.
One caller asked Dr. Drew what he could do about his new girlfriend's horrible vaginal odor. Dr. Drew & Crew were like, "what can you do? Bacterial Vaginosis is hard to treat. Don't say anything."
A later caller wanted to know what she could do about recurrent yeast infections. She'd tried any number of pharmaceutical anti-fungal medications, but the yeast didn't give up.
Knowing a bit about so-called "alternative" medical technology, I picked up the cell phone and called. While I was on hold, another caller came on to say that she had good luck with dealing with teh yeast by using only polyester underwear.
I asked Dr. Drew if it was safe to use yogurt in the vagina. He was like, "sure, but why bother? It's not going to help. These people have tried the most powerful antifungals available, and still have problems. What can yogurt do that drugs cannot?" (this was his sentiment, if not the exact wording).
While Yogurt is a sub-optimal probiotic solution, at least it's getting to the root of the problem. Yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis are caused when "bad" bacterial and fungi are able to establish themselves. No matter how many of these "bad" bacteria/fungi the antibiotic/antifungal is able to take out (99.9999% is not enough), the survivors will be able to quickly reestablish themselves once the pills are stopped.
In alternative medical thinking, "good" bacteria are used to coat the digestive system / skin / vagina with a protective film. When "bad" bacteria come along, there's no room available, so they can't establish a colony.
I don't know if there's been any research about probiotics & gonorrhea. But it'd be an interesting study...
here's an article about probiotics & Urinary tract infections: Specific probiotic strains are effective for genitourinary infections, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Nov, 2006 by Alan R. Gaby
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Why is this story tagged as "cancer"?
Oh no she didn't!
*snaps fingers*
My philosophy when it comes to infections - hit them hard and don't let up until they are dead, dead, dead!
Technically, the proper medical procedure is, indeed :
- to use the lowest powerful antibiotic (if penicillin works, use it, damn !) and only if needed (most cold are caused by viruses and don't need any)
- make it really, really, really clear to the patient, that he/she had to take the antibiotics all the way until the end of the cure, until all the bacteria are clearly and definitely dead. And not stop abruptly as soon as he/she feels better.
That slows down the evolution of super-bugs.
(and in addition to what you said :
- most antibiotics kill all bacteria indiscriminately, not only bugs, but the normal flora : which perturbs some normal function and leave the place free for bad yeast to rush in. So always explain to the patient which food contain good probiotics to compensate (like some yogurts) and prescribe some probiotics too (usually some good yeast) )
That's what we're taught in our medical education.
The only problems comes into getting the correct choice of the lowest denomination antibiotics.
- On one hand, hospitals have proven and tested recommendation (based on tests against resistance, etc.) And might even have some quick tests to predict resistance (so even when super bugs become prevalent, you can still detect which don't need the super-drug).
- On the other hand, pharmaceutical companies have an agenda to push for newer (and still patented) drugs.
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