I just got out of a telebriefing with the CDC. The atmosphere was not
a jovial one. The words "gonorrhea epidemic" were thrown around in
ominous tones. No one was up for hanging out after.
Did you know gonorrhea can kill you? It can, and it's also tragically effective at making women infertile. According to her journals, my great aunt Mabel was "barren," and my grandmother always told me it was probably from gonorrhea. The only reason we don't hear about these awful complications more often -- and we instead think of it as a little oops of an infection ("Can I still drink on these antibiotics?" "Yes." "Cool.") -- is because we've been able to kill it early with relative ease.
But over the past decades, gonorrhea has been mowing down our antibiotics. If this was the Olympic 400 IM, gonorrhea would be the Ryan Lochte and our antibiotics would be the guy from Moldova.
The list of effective antibiotics has been dwindling as the bacteria became resistant, and now it's down to one. Five years ago, the CDC said fluoroquinolones were no longer effective, but oral cephalosporins were still a common/easy treatment. Now injected ceftriaxone is the only recommended effective drug we have left. And it has to be given along with either azithromycin or doxycycline.
Did you know gonorrhea can kill you? It can, and it's also tragically effective at making women infertile. According to her journals, my great aunt Mabel was "barren," and my grandmother always told me it was probably from gonorrhea. The only reason we don't hear about these awful complications more often -- and we instead think of it as a little oops of an infection ("Can I still drink on these antibiotics?" "Yes." "Cool.") -- is because we've been able to kill it early with relative ease.
But over the past decades, gonorrhea has been mowing down our antibiotics. If this was the Olympic 400 IM, gonorrhea would be the Ryan Lochte and our antibiotics would be the guy from Moldova.
The list of effective antibiotics has been dwindling as the bacteria became resistant, and now it's down to one. Five years ago, the CDC said fluoroquinolones were no longer effective, but oral cephalosporins were still a common/easy treatment. Now injected ceftriaxone is the only recommended effective drug we have left. And it has to be given along with either azithromycin or doxycycline.
So,
yes, getting gonorrhea now means that you have to go in and get
antibiotics through a needle. And then everyone with whom you've had sex
in the last 60 days has to get tested, too.
1 comment:
No pathogen can ever become resistant to silver ions. Intravenous injection of silver sols in hospitals would surely be able to resolve this problem. All the hospitals will need to do is to find which cluster size of silver ions treats gonorrhea the best and go from there.
Silver Particles Kill MRSA, as proved by the Department of Physical Chemistry at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. Published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B in August 2006. Titled “Silver colloidal nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and their antibacterial activity”
“…silver particles with a narrow size distribution with an average size of 25 nm, which showed high antimicrobial and bactericidal activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including highly multi-resistant strains such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).” The study further demonstrated that very low concentrations of silver could be utilized to destroy MRSA, as long as the silver particles were very small, averaging 25 nm."
For non-commercial and precise instructions on how to make your own silver sol (colloidal silver), see 'Mothman777's Blog' SBO’s And Silver Sols, And How To Manufacture Your Own Silver Sol". Though you will need to purchase a few items from laboratory equipment suppliers of your own choosing. Cooperatives of researchers could find which disease responds to which nanometer size of groups of silver ions and share the information which each other.
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