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'Super Gonorrhea' May Go Global, Become Untreatable

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'Super Gonorrhea' May Go Global, Become Untreatable
Newser | By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore | Apr 19, 2016 9:03 AM CDT

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In this 2013 file photo, a sample of condoms,
which are particularly helpful in not spreading
drug-resistant gonorrhea

Cases are skyrocketing in UK, causing 'huge concern' drugs could stop working altogether

(NEWSER) – Last year's emergence of so-called "super gonorrhea" in Leeds hasn't ended in the UK city. The STD is now popping up in new British cities including London, and doctors are worried it may spread faster just as it becomes untreatable. Because the STD is so good at fighting off antibiotics, treatment typically involves a combination of two drugs—azithromycin and ceftriaxone—but resistance to azithromycin is spreading and doctors worry ceftriaxone will soon be next, reports the BBC. The spread is a "further sign of the very real threat of antibiotic resistance to our ability to treat infections," says Public Health England, which has had only limited success in tracking down sexual partners of those diagnosed with super gonorrhea, reports the Independent.

"The spread of high level azithromycin-resistant gonorrhea is a huge concern and it is essential that every effort is made to contain further spread," says Dr. Elizabeth Carlin, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. While the outbreak seems to have started among heterosexual couples, it is now infecting gay men as well. Just last week Chancellor George Osborne declared resistance to antibiotics "an even greater threat to mankind than cancer" if there is no concerted global action. Caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, gonorrhea spreads by unprotected sex, but can also pass from mother to child in utero. In the past few years the infection rate in the UK has more than doubled, reports Vice, with only chlamydia higher up the list. Syphilis infections are up for the first time in years as well.

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In case you missed it you can read the article on the high rate spread of syphilis infections among Gay men here:

CDC Official: Syphilis Rates Among Gay Men Highest Since Before Start Of HIV Epidemic

Gonorrhea (or 'the clap') is easy to spot. It causes a painful, burning sensation when you urinate. If you have bareback sex be sure you see a doctor if you think you have been infected.
 

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There was a virulent antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea that flared up during the Vietnam War due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics as prophylaxis. Eventually died out although, obviously, not before ruining a few lives if not love lives. It was rumoured that Asian doctors whom the GIs consulted did not treat it because they believed that the GIs' dicks would eventually fall off anyway.
 
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