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The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.
Sex infection gonorrhea risks becoming superbug
Seeded on Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:22 AM EDT
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Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhea from Britain's Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs.
"This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said in a telephone interview.
Gonorrhea is a common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection and if left untreated can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women.
Globally, the WHO estimates that there are at least 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections -- including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis -- every year among people aged 15 to 49.
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#1 - Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:22 AM EDTYou simply cannot rely on patients to be compliant with taking their medications and every time you are prescribed an antibiotic and you fail to complete the prescription you add to the problem of the development of these resistant bugs. Every time a doctor prescribes an antibiotic for a viral infection he or she is adding to the problem. In the ED where I used to work we used DOT (directly observed therapy) to assure that patients got their medications for STD's before they left. We gave them two huge injections on Penicillin with Benemid before they left and that usually took care of the problem and they health department would follow up with them. It is sad to hear that people are still having unprotected sex. Bad thing to do in this day and time.
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