Uh-Oh! Super Gonorrhea!

[3113]

I guess we'd better think about putting condoms in all our stories...

Scientists have found a "superbug" strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.

Full story here.

 

[lovecraft68]

I guess we'd better think about putting condoms in all our stories...

Full story here.

Once again a public disclaimer for good old fashioned Monogamy!

Boy are the loving wives crowd going to be mad when all those big black cocks have to be covered with rubbers!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Time to buy a latex suit!

 

[lovecraft68]

Time to buy a latex suit!

The body condom from the Naked Gun.

 

[R. Richard]

There has been a continuing problem since back in the Vietnam war. People would obtain antibiotics and self treat STDs. Unfortunately, they didn't use a sufficient dosage and/or not for long enough. Thus, many STDs evolved into antibiotic resistant strains.
They do train doctors for a purpose. Those who self administer defeat some of that purpose. Welcome to the brave new world.

 

[3113]

Time to buy a latex suit!

The Fetish category is going to be very popular.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There has been a continuing problem since back in the Vietnam war. People would obtain antibiotics and self treat STDs. Unfortunately, they didn't use a sufficient dosage and/or not for long enough. Thus, many STDs evolved into antibiotic resistant strains.
They do train doctors for a purpose. Those who self administer defeat some of that purpose. Welcome to the brave new world.

I remember my first roommate in Korea when he got shipped home, he had to stop over in the Philippians to be treated for a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea...it was dubbed the Black Clap.

He was confined to the base hospital for his eight month stay.

 

[rgraham666]

That took longer than I thought.

 

[R. Richard]

I remember my first roommate in Korea when he got shipped home, he had to stop over in the Philippians to be treated for a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea...it was dubbed the Black Clap.

He was confined to the base hospital for his eight month stay.

I have been told that, in Vietnam, a particularly nasty case of STD would be treated with a form of penecillian called 'airplane glue.' The stuff was several milion units and would kill off damn near anything, including the intestinal bacteria needed to digest food.

 

[stephen55]

Years ago I sat in on a lecture given by an epidemiologist titled "Really Scary Bugs!".

Epidemiology, literally meaning "the study of what is upon the people", is derived from Greek epi, meaning "upon, among", demos, meaning "people, district", and logos, meaning "study, word, discourse".

Think of it as "who gets what and how, where and why do they get it?"

At the time the Ebola Virus was front page news, as was the Human Immunodeficiency Virus's ability to rapidly mutate and thus, make an effective vaccine damned near impossible to create. I thought that the talk would be along these lines. It wasn't.

The talk was about multiple drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), multi-drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum (a form of malaria) and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureous (a common bacterial cause of infection).

The talk was about the disturbing and very scary ability of bacteria and parasites to develop immunity to current antibiotic methods of treatment. It was also about how that same ability practically guaranteed that future antibiotics would also become less effective as they too butted up against the ability of bugs to adapt to whatever we throw at them.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae H041, the first superbug strain of gonorrhea, is both overdue and soon to be followed by who knows what.

Going a long ways back, I vaguely recall my second year university class in Microbiology, where the aging Professor Emeritus and head of the department told us bright eyed med student wannabes that us mere humans would never be able to control bacterial infections. I recall my youthful, we can conquer the world self smugly thinking, "Right, you old fart...what do you know?"

He not only knew all about bacterial ability to develop resistance to antibiotics, he also knew how trivial it was for bacteria to pass the info on to their fellow bacteria, even ones of differing species.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

MRSA and it's assorted cronies are hospital nightmares. And what drives my-wife-the-microbiologist crazy is that what is needed is old-fashioned, early 20th Century sterile procedures. No bug has yet developed an immunity to hot, soapy water and Lysol™. But can you get the nursing/medical/support staff to wash their hands between patients? You cannot. That would take too much time, don'tcherknow, and there are so many patients to treat . . .

So patients come in sick and leave sicker or dead because 'professionals' won't act professionally.

 

[trysail]

NPR's version of the story:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...er-resistant-gonorrhea-strain-found-in-japan/


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[stephen55]

Wash my hands in between surgeries? Jeezaazz!! I washed them an hour ago! How dirty can they get in an hour?

Okay, it's not that bad but, bear, you're right. The single most effective method of dealing with hospital infections is simply washing one's hands between every patient contact.

When I was a senior year med student, one of the orthopaedic surgeons on staff at my teaching hospital made rounds in the newborn nursery ever second day, examining every newborn for congenital dislocation of the hip. He would go around the room, twisting and turning every new baby's hips to rule out dislocation. He didn't wear gloves (every bit as good at transferring bacteria as skin) but he did have a trolley that had a bucket of Betadine solution and a pile of clean towels. He did a quick scrub in between every baby he examined.

This was back in the days when Staph infections in hospital wards, especially newborn nurseries, was rampant. This particular surgeon was simply following in the footsteps of Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) who postulated, well before Pasteur's germ theory of infection, that simply washing one's hands in between cases reduced infection.

In his day, it was common for doctors to wear a frock coat and the older, dirtier and more bloody and pus spattered it was, the better. These docs would do autopsies (on their victims) in the morning, wipe their bloody and infected hands on their frock coat and then do surgeries. Wearing the same coats and with the same unwashed hands, they would deliver babies if the midwifes ran into problems. (The doctors obstetrical wards had three times the mortality of the midwife's wards.)

Semmelweis discovered that the carnage due to infection could be greatly reduced if doctors merely washed their hands in a solution of chlorinated lime. Because bacteria were then unknown and Semmelweiss had no scientific explanation of his findings, he was mostly laughed at or ignored.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Wash my hands in between surgeries? Jeezaazz!! I washed them an hour ago! How dirty can they get in an hour?

Okay, it's not that bad but, bear, you're right. The single most effective method of dealing with hospital infections is simply washing one's hands between every patient contact.

When I was a senior year med student, one of the orthopaedic surgeons on staff at my teaching hospital made rounds in the newborn nursery ever second day, examining every newborn for congenital dislocation of the hip. He would go around the room, twisting and turning every new baby's hips to rule out dislocation. He didn't wear gloves (every bit as good at transferring bacteria as skin) but he did have a trolley that had a bucket of Betadine solution and a pile of clean towels. He did a quick scrub in between every baby he examined.

This was back in the days when Staph infections in hospital wards, especially newborn nurseries, was rampant. This particular surgeon was simply following in the footsteps of Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865) who postulated, well before Pasteur's germ theory of infection, that simply washing one's hands in between cases reduced infection.

In his day, it was common for doctors to wear a frock coat and the older, dirtier and more bloody and pus spattered it was, the better. These docs would do autopsies (on their victims) in the morning, wipe their bloody and infected hands on their frock coat and then do surgeries. Wearing the same coats and with the same unwashed hands, they would deliver babies if the midwifes ran into problems. (The doctors obstetrical wards had three times the mortality of the midwife's wards.)

Semmelweis discovered that the carnage due to infection could be greatly reduced if doctors merely washed their hands in a solution of chlorinated lime. Because bacteria were then unknown and Semmelweiss had no scientific explanation of his findings, he was mostly laughed at or ignored.

I just had to get up and wash my hands after reading about pus covered coats...yuck!

It's funny, most ER and Doctors offices are filled with the hand sanitizers...all my doctors routinely use it as the come in the exam room and again when they leave.

Yet I was in an ER with a bad cut on my hand...they used plain water to clean the wound. Hand in a pan, syringe full of water, squirt. Refill syringe from the water that just rolled off my hand. After putting in the stitches, it required three, they slathered on the Neosporine and covered it with a bandage.

The water thing shocked me when they did it, the time before they had used hydrogen-peroxide to clean a wound on a finger.

Oh, don't let me around a knife, I have a tendency to have slight accidents with them. Hurting myself or others.