Gonorrhea Could Join Growing List of Untreatable Diseases
source: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/08/gonorrhea-untreatable-diseases/
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The arms race between humanity and disease-causing bacteria is drawing to a close—and the bacteria are winning. The latest evidence: gonorrhea is becoming resistant to all standard antibiotic treatment.
Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world—with about 600,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year. A few years ago, investigators started seeing cases of infection that did not easily respond to treatment with a group of drugs called cephalosporins, which are currently the last line of defense against this particular infection. Now, the number of drug-resistant cases has grown so much in the U.S. and elsewhere that gonorrheal infection may soon become untreatable, according to doctors writing in the February 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world—with about 600,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year. A few years ago, investigators started seeing cases of infection that did not easily respond to treatment with a group of drugs called cephalosporins, which are currently the last line of defense against this particular infection. Now, the number of drug-resistant cases has grown so much in the U.S. and elsewhere that gonorrheal infection may soon become untreatable, according to doctors writing in the February 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Anonmaly
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Nature slowly defeating consumerist whore culture, ain't that a bitch...
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Anonmaly
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Anonmaly
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And that's nothing to clap about.....
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Anonmaly
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MSII
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And it all comes back to our "for profit" medical system to doles out medications like pez and so has caused the quick build up of immunity in so many diseases that a few decades ago were thought to be on the edge of being completely rendered extinct. More of the evils and insanity that comes from laissez-faire.
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MSII
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Vierotchka
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Keep covered...
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Vierotchka
