Of course, the best way you can avoid becoming a victim of an STD or this new strain of gonorrhea is to use the very old fashioned method of being monogamy. High risk sexual behavior has become more common in recent years as people, especially young adults, use social media and apps to arrange anonymous or casual sexual encounters. Rhode Island officials state that the recent increase in STD cases is following a national trend and that their state is not alone. Young adults are becoming infected with STD’s at a much faster rate than the rest of the population. There are also apps for gay men to find partners called Grinder, as well as other social media platforms and apps that make it easy for even those in remote areas to find sexual partners.Įven in America, there have been reports of a significant rise in the cases of sexually transmitted diseases in recent years.įor example, CNN reports that between 20, cases of syphilis in Rhode Island alone grew by 79 percent! HIV infections were up by 33 percent and gonorrhea by 30 percent. Another popular website, called Ashley Madison, encourages married people to “have an affair”. The spread of this new super strain of gonorrhea could be made worse by apps such as Tinder, which openly encourage people to engage in casual, or even anonymous sex, by making it easy to find willing partners online. Scientists now know that gonorrhea can mutate and develop a new resistance, and with very few new antibiotics being developed, we cannot afford to become complacent about this new threat. There are currently investigations into the cases of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea. The potential spread of this new super gonorrhea to reach beyond England’s borders is an almost certainty. The CDC has stated that this new gonorrhea super strain is an urgent public health threat. President Obama issued an executive order in 2015 on combating antibiotic resistant bacteria and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its current STD treatment guidelines in response.

New cases of antibiotic resistant bacteria have been proven to be a difficult challenge for health care providers around the world, not just in the U.K., and cases of sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise! Gonorrhea causes pelvic inflammation and infertility in women and pregnant women can give birth to newborns who are blind. Gonorrhea is a very serious illness which shows no symptoms for many people until it has reached advanced stages.

This new strain of gonorrhea is very resistant to the newer, first line antibiotic, azithromycin, and could become completely untreatable very soon. According to the 1874 edition of Dunglison’s Dictionary of Medical Science: Gonorrhea of every kind, attended with any inflammatory symptoms.

According to Public Health England, English researchers have found that in 2007 study, 42 percent of all gonorrhea prescriptions were for ciprofloxacin and still, in 2011, one out of every 5 doctors were still prescribing this antiquated antibiotic.

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