Gonorrhea Is Evolving to Become ‘Impossible to Treat'

[Ms_Ann]

WHO

World Health Organization says decreased condom use and increased travel is leading to drug-resistant gonorrhoea

Newly evolved strains of drug-resistant gonorrhea are making the sexually transmitted infection impossible to treat, the World Health Organization has warned.

Be careful out there...fornicators.

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[hznh]

You have a personal stake in this, Annie?

 

[Ishmael]

Mother Nature always finds a way.

Ishmael

 

[hznh]

Mother Nature always finds a way.

Ishmael

Syphilis found a way to migrate into that addled brain of yours.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Jezzi...Pork...Luke...Fermi:

Requires a medical diagnosis
Symptoms include painful urination and abnormal discharge from the penis or vagina. Men may experience testicular pain and women may experience pain in the lower belly. In some cases, gonorrhea has no symptoms.

 

[renard_ruse]

Mother Nature always finds a way.

Ishmael

There's a reason why cultures from the dawn of time often had taboos against sex outside of monogamous marriage. Of course there were some cultures that didn't, and there were often exceptions for the well heeled, and some people didn't follow the rules, but in general, it has been pretty common for human societies to discourage pre-marital, extra-marital, and other non-monogamous forms of sex. They discovered through trial and error what works best and prevents the most problems to society and individuals. Trial and error validated by the wisdom gained through millenia of experience is why we need to learn from traditional cultural values and not discard them as "unscientific" or stupid.

 

[magicalmoments]

There's a reason why cultures from the dawn of time often had taboos against sex outside of monogamous marriage. Of course there were some cultures that didn't, and there were often exceptions for the well heeled, and some people didn't follow the rules, but in general, it has been pretty common for human societies to discourage pre-marital, extra-marital, and other non-monogamous forms of sex. They discovered through trial and error what works best and prevents the most problems to society and individuals. Trial and error validated by the wisdom gained through millenia of experience is why we need to learn from traditional cultural values and not discard them as "unscientific" or stupid.

I doubt the taboos you mention had anything to do with STD's. Most, although by no means all, were focussed on women and very few curbed adultery, especially among men.

I also recall that gonorrhea was unknown in Europe and mid east until after Columbus found his way back to Europe.

So that means it was you fucking Yanks that inflicted this disease on the world!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Perhaps.


But it was a fair trade. We received smallpox in exchange...

 

[hsnh]

I also recall that gonorrhea was unknown in Europe and mid east until after Columbus found his way back to Europe.

So that means it was you fucking Yanks that inflicted this disease on the world!

But doesn't your statement imply almost the opposite of what you intended? (as in semi- racist)
That whites got it from Native Americas?

 

[hsnh]

There's a reason why cultures from the dawn of time often had taboos against sex outside of monogamous marriage.

I think they were more worried about potential pregnancies, than about STDS.

My grandma once told me a story about a village where half of the kids were red- haired, just like the vicar.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

But doesn't your statement imply almost the opposite of what you intended? (as in semi- racist)
That whites got it from Native Americas?

In all fairness, they gave it to the blacks too...

 

[hsnh]

In all fairness, they gave it to the blacks too...

On a more serious note: it never occurred to me before to think of where all these (STD's, flus and so on) originated. Patient or continent zero, as they call it.

Interesting stuff.

 

[oggbashan]

One of my wife's distant ancestors had three wives in the 19th Century. The second wife had twin boys who died within weeks from 'congential syphilis'. She died almost immediately after giving birth to a later child who died a couple of days later 'from congenital syphilis'. Her widower remarried a few months later. None of his third wife's children had syphilis and lived to old age.

Suspiciously the third wife's children did not have any resemblance to their apparent father. Modern gene testing suggests that my wife, who is descended from a child of the first wife, has nothing in common with the descendants from the third wife's children.

Congenital syphilis was a child-killer in the 19th and 20th Centuries up to the introduction of antibiotics. It still exists in many communities around the world and in poorer communities even in Western democracies but can be treated if detected.

 

[magicalmoments]

But doesn't your statement imply almost the opposite of what you intended? (as in semi- racist)
That whites got it from Native Americas?

Sailors, months at sea, no women... Punishment from God for buggery!

 

[SeeNoHearNoSpeakNo]

Is it true, 'Gonnorrhea' is the leading contender name in the 'Rename North Korea' plan,
After the current 'crisis' is dealt with?..

Sounds Legit.

 

[hsnh]

One of my wife's distant ancestors had three wives in the 19th Century. The second wife had twin boys who died within weeks from 'congential syphilis'. She died almost immediately after giving birth to a later child who died a couple of days later 'from congenital syphilis'. Her widower remarried a few months later. None of his third wife's children had syphilis and lived to old age.

Suspiciously the third wife's children did not have any resemblance to their apparent father. Modern gene testing suggests that my wife, who is descended from a child of the first wife, has nothing in common with the descendants from the third wife's children.

Congenital syphilis was a child-killer in the 19th and 20th Centuries up to the introduction of antibiotics. It still exists in many communities around the world and in poorer communities even in Western democracies but can be treated if detected.

Fascinating stuff - both the medical and more 'sensationalist' aspect, so to speak.

And her infidelity saved her babies' and even her lives.
Also : I doubt that she cheated with that purpose in mind, did anyone know about these medical things at that time?


Btw: We're now living amazing times, with the pace that science is progressing & becoming more available.
Could you even conceive, a few years ago that any Average Joe could get a DNA test at ancestry.com for 140 bucks!

 

[oggbashan]

...

And her infidelity saved her babies' and even her lives.
Also : I doubt that she cheated with that purpose in mind, did anyone know about these medical things at that time?

...

Yes, they did. Congential syphilis was a known killer of babies and young children but very difficult to treat at the time.

In 1913 to 1916 attempts were made to measure the rate of syphilis in the UK's male population:

https://academic.oup.com/shm/articl...revalence-of-Syphilis-in-England-and-Wales-on

While we have been unable to arrive at any positive figures the evidence we have received leads us to the conclusion that the number of persons who have been infected with syphilis, acquired or congenital, cannot fall below 10 per cent of the whole population in the large cities, and the percentage with gonorrhoea must greatly exceed this proportion.

Currently the UK and US rates are less than 0.5 per cent. Canada's rate is even lower.

 

[pointless]

I doubt the taboos you mention had anything to do with STD's. Most, although by no means all, were focussed on women and very few curbed adultery, especially among men.

I also recall that gonorrhea was unknown in Europe and mid east until after Columbus found his way back to Europe.

So that means it was you fucking Yanks that inflicted this disease on the world!

you kinda got that backwards, chief.

 

[Tryharder62]

I guess there is one good thing about not getting any!

 

[oggbashan]

you kinda got that backwards, chief.

True. The Colombian theory of syphilis AND the theory that syphilis already existed in Europe and elsewhere but was misdiagnosed as a form of leprosy...

are BOTH unproven.

The first erratic diagnostic test for possible syphilis, the Wassermann test, wasn't in general use until the late 19th Century. It could only be diagnosed definitively at the later stages. Even then doctors were reluctant to name it specifically unless the patient was an inmate in a public institution. They used more 'acceptable' terms such as GPI - 'General Paralysis of the Insane' - to save families' embarrassment.

The twins I mentioned above were diagnosed (on their death certificates) in a workhouse where their mother had given birth. The other child was born at home so the death certificate was a euphemism, now known to mean congential syphilis.

 

[Ramone45]

There's a reason why cultures from the dawn of time often had taboos against sex outside of monogamous marriage. Of course there were some cultures that didn't, and there were often exceptions for the well heeled, and some people didn't follow the rules, but in general, it has been pretty common for human societies to discourage pre-marital, extra-marital, and other non-monogamous forms of sex. They discovered through trial and error what works best and prevents the most problems to society and individuals. Trial and error validated by the wisdom gained through millenia of experience is why we need to learn from traditional cultural values and not discard them as "unscientific" or stupid.

FTW. "But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile, and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for."

 

[FGB]

I just know that I'm Clean! (and the FWB as well I suppose.)

I had the urologist run all the test along with the others as long as they were taking Blood and urine anyway as a follow up to a procedure...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sailors, months at sea, no women... Punishment from God for buggery!

Don't forget, the white man was welcomed as a living god. I'm sure there were scores of willing un-Chirstian ladies willing to service a living god.