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from the super-bugs-don't-come-from-krypton dept.
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There’s a little-known sexually transmitted disease (STD) that’s on the rise – and could soon become a very big problem.
Sexual health experts warn that Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) has the potential to become a drug-resistant superbug within a matter of years.
Research by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) found that over 70 percent of sexual health experts said that if current practices do not change, MG will become resistant to first and second line antibiotics within a decade. Left unchecked, they say this could result in thousands of women each year at increased risk of infertility from pelvic inflammatory disease caused by MG.
As a result of these daunting statistics, BASHH have just released draft guidelines to help the public and health services deal with this impending crisis.
“MG is rapidly becoming the new superbug: it’s increasingly resistant to most of the antibiotics we use to treat chlamydia and changes its pattern of resistance during treatment so it's like trying to hit a moving target,” Dr Peter Greenhouse, sexual health consultant from the UK, said in a statement.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @07:55PM (6 children)
That one says it right there.
People used to treat each other with some level of respect and humanity. There once was some sense of restraint.
Now everyone just wants to get theirs. Can I get rich creating a new junk bond while destroying the real estate market and causing a recession? Okay, that sounds like a plan! Can I hike the price of life saving drugs by thousands of percent -- to enrich myself? Okay, great! Can I pollute the land, the air, the water without concern for what I'm doing to the lives of actual human beings, while making a big profit? Go for it! As the BMW driver zooms down the carpool lane in his empty car unconcerned about everyone else waiting in the other lanes.
And the UN Human Rights Council should be looking in to Google's redesign of the tabs in the Chrome browser!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @08:31PM (2 children)
Yeah, because things were so much better back in the age of the Inquisition, right?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23PM (1 child)
Your comment and other replies make me consider that maybe I have a sheltered outlook. Or falsely inflated expectation of humanity.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:32PM
Those two things go together. While the good people tend to outweigh the bad there are still plenty of shitty people that range from selfish to evil. There are more than most people expect, humanity as a whole is still in its infancy with large swaths of people throwing baby tantrums. QED US politics today. I'd say the safest attitude is cynical optimist. Expect the worst and hope for the best, then wait until you feel more sure about which one any given person is.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)
Respect and restraint in public, perhaps, but people also used to beat their spouses and children behind closed doors and think nothing of it. Some of those people relied on documentation, purportedly handed down by their gods, that encouraged the beating of spouses and children as perfectly moral behavior. Some probably still do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:23PM
Supposedly they still do and it is quite as common as it has ever been. To suggest otherwise can lead to great derision from the internet, shunning and outright violence and death threats.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23AM
> Some probably still do.
A friend from high school became a forensic psychologist, based near rural areas in one of the southern US states. His stories of abused kids are horrible.