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This Little-Known STD Could Become The "Next Superbug" Within A Decade

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 16 2018, @06:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the super-bugs-don't-come-from-krypton dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for takyon

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.

Source: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-littleknown-std-could-become-the-next-superbug-within-a-decade/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:18PM (#708390)

    If only we had a large anthropological library available to us at our fingertips so that we could research various cultural traditions such as two-spirit folks. It would be incredible if we could also look up the current theory on the neurological origins of brain sex and the reasons the brain might develop to be a different sex from the reproductive system. With those two things, we might be able to go beyond your question and synthesize some sociological theories.

    Alas.