[NEWS] Gonorrhea may soon be untreatable !!

The invincible STD: Gonorrhea may soon be untreatable, Britain’s chief medic warns

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 29 December, 2015, 12:42pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 29 December, 2015, 12:42pm
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The Washington Post

Britain’s chief medical officer has reportedly written to doctors and pharmacies in Britain sounding the alarm on antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, warning that the sexually transmitted disease may soon be untreatable.

The infection is increasingly caused by strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae that resist antibiotic treatment.

“Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance,” Dame Sally Davies wrote. The Guardian reported that a recent outbreak of a superbug strain of the disease - one that doesn’t respond to the antibiotic azithromycin - has put Britain on high alert.

Davies warned doctors and pharmacists to make sure the correct drugs were being prescribed to gonorrhea patients and urged doctors to use proper treatment protocols. A recent study found that many doctors in Britain still prescribe ciprofloxacin, which hasn’t been the recommended treatment in Britain for a decade now.

In 2013, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention gave the illness the centres’ highest ranking for antibiotic resistance, classifying gonorrhea as an “urgent threat.” At that time, the CDC reported that around a third of cases were resistant to at least one antibiotic.

In the United States, there were just over 350,000 cases in 2014; Britain had about 35,000.

Doctors in the United States are now told to use ciprofloxacin in combination with a second antibiotic. For a while, this strategy seemed to be working: A recent study found that resistance to ciprofloxacin had dropped from 1.4 per cent of gonorrhea cases in 2011 to just .4 percent in 2013. But in 2014, the resistance doubled.

Why does this happen? When researchers look for new antibiotics, they look for ones that are most effective against pathogenic bacteria. But as soon as these antibiotics are released for use by the public, they start to lose their effectiveness. That is because bacteria are fast-evolving, and individual bacterium are skilled at sharing genes that allow them to survive particular antibiotics. Bacteria can even copy resistance genes from microbes of different strains and species through a process called horizontal gene transfer.

“Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance”

sounds like something happening right now

Calling for Nat,



Is this worse than HIV

eating antibiotics now !

Wondergirl got hope liao!!!

the rise of antibiotics resistance bacteria is seriously a dangerous sign