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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 legont on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:57AM (3 children)
Even more, people had more sex before the sexual revolution; in marriage, off course.
Hippies took it all and destroyed. No wonder - revolutions are always like this.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:11PM (2 children)
Don't worry. They recanted the sexual revolution, and now the ctrl-left has gone sex-negative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)
Ahem, that would be the alt-right that is sex negative. The adjectives "incel" and "misogynist nerd" didn't just pop out of nowhere ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:31PM
They're both sex-negative. The right wingers in the USA have always had a puritan streak. These are the "wedding ring = effective STD protection" crowd. What is more interesting to me is how the left wingers in the USA have turned from sex-positive to sex-negative.
Incel originated as a self-identified label, and has been around there on the internet for at least 15 years I'd say. Recently, however, it turned into a homophobic attack on men who have sex with men instead of women. It may seem difficult to reconcile this with sex-negativity, but that's how it reveals itself as plain old misandry. Men who ask women on dates are called sexual harassers.
Misogynerd is what you call the nearest available man when it turns out that programming requires a basic comprehension of middle school algebra.