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The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending the use of cephalosporins to treat gonorrhea rather than quinolones, due to emergence of quinolone-resistant strains. However, some strains of gonorrhea are already resistant to drugs in the newly recommended class of antibiotics:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned back in 2012 that one of two drugs in the class of antibiotics the WHO now recommends, cephalosporins, was in danger of becoming useless to treat gonorrhea, at least in the U.S, and recommended that doctors stop prescribing it. Since then, the CDC's recommended treatment for gonorrhea has been a dual therapy, with the two antibiotics ceftriaxone and azithromycin, but an analysis in July warned that the bacteria could even become resistant to that combination.
As for when antibiotic options will run out altogether, Teodora Wi of the WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research tells the journal Science, "We will have to have new drugs in 5 years, I think." The U.S. government is spending millions of dollars through the CDC and National Institutes of Health to develop new antibiotics and combat resistance.
The WHO also revised its guidelines for treating two other sexually transmitted infections, chlamydia and syphilis. Neither is facing severe antibiotic resistance. Syphilis, for example, can be treated with a single dose of penicillin, although there is a worldwide shortage of the drug.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 01 2016, @07:15AM
Number of partners is the major risk factor, from the sound of it.
In case you're not familiar with it, the U-Haul joke is:
Q - what does a lesbian do on the second date?
A - she drives up in a moving van with all her stuff!
This is tongue in cheek (or something else...sorry, not sorry), but unintentionally very revealing, as is the follow up "Q - Okay, then what does a gay guy do on the second date? A - *What* second date?" Obviously you can't generalize to millions of people, especially not through humor, topical as it may be. But it's not for nothing that these have been stereotypes since before I was born.
Unpacking it, what this means is gay women tend to bond *hard;* the worst you can (could?) say about most of us is we're serial monogamists. I've only had one sexual partner, of three relationships total (one ongoing), and I don't--can't!--do casual sex. As you may expect, regular STD screenings turn up clean. It's not lesbians you hear about when people mention the Castro district. Whatever the reason, men seem a lot more motivated to have sex with a lot of partners. Maybe something evolutionary?
It follows, then, that if having a lot of partners is likely to get you infected, all else being equal, the group with the most partners per person will have the most STDs. And all else is NOT equal: fingering is a lot less likely to get you something nasty than anal sex for example.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...