Gonorrhea can develop to the point where there is no cure

The director of the British Medical Center has issued a warning message to all doctors that gonorrhea may develop to the point that it cannot be treated anymore and then, humanity will return to the era before penicillin. However, this frightening prospect may be delayed or even prevented if doctors prescribe exactly but sadly, this has not been done properly, at least up to this point.

It seems that when the medicine is trying to find a cure for a disease, making sex safer, another disease is growing to an uncontrollable level. And from a certain angle, this is not a coincidence. As more and more doctors find out about better HIV treatments, at least in developing countries, people start getting bored with unsafe sex warnings.

Many people who read news of new achievements in the treatment of HIV hastened to think about the prospect of "barefoot" when having sex. And this partly explains the increasing incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as syphilis, gonorrhea, etc., not only in the US but also in many other parts of the world, especially In young people, the rate of deaths due to HIV / AIDS is on the decline.

Infection rates and drug resistance are increasing markedly in many parts of the world.

For gonorrhea, the transmission rate and resistance to drugs are increasing markedly in many regions of the world. In March last year, an outbreak of drug-resistant gonorrhea was reported in Leeds City and quickly spread to other towns in the north of England. And this is not the first time that gonorrhea bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed to resistance. However, nowadays, the special drugs developed previously are no longer effective. And infectious disease experts warned that the situation could quickly out of control.

In response to this situation, the British Association for Sexual and HIV Health conducted studies and found that many online pharmacies are providing azithromycin antibiotics while in many doctors' prescriptions, this is is an outdated antibiotic. Most people have gonorrhea but do not show symptoms outside and they can still infect others.

For those who are inexperienced, the most visible symptom is the blue or yellow fluid that comes from the genitalia, bleeding during menstruation and pain during sexual intercourse or urination. Although rare, gonorrhea patients have a 20% risk of prostate cancer and babies may be born blind if the mother becomes ill.

In 2009, a gonorrhea strain called H041 was determined to be unable to treat any drug, including cephalosporin antibiotics such as ceftriaxone. However, only 1 case of H041 was reported. However, in Leeds outbreak, there were 16 cases of infection and that is an alarming sign.

At the same time, when Truvada was announced as a savior of HIV-infected people, it also raised concerns that people would be subjective, indifferent to the use of condoms, facilitating the spread. other diseases. And this fear, though still controversial, but with this message from British doctors, is probably clear. Now researchers continue to look for ways to combat drug-resistant strains, and even if they solve the problem, using condoms is a safe way to protect themselves against bases. dangerous disease, not just HIV.