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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259367/CDC-fears-public-health-nightmare-cases-incurable-antibiotic-resistant-gonorrhea-North-America.html
'These are the clinical cases we've been waiting for,' said study leader Vanessa Allen of pUblic Health Ontario.
Researchers observed that 6.7 percent of patients with gonorrhea at one Toronto clinic still had the disease after a round of cephalosporins, which is the last antibiotic which doctors are able to use to cure the disease.
Despite the fact that the nine patients in Canada were cured with the injectable antibiotic known as ceftriaxone, Allen said she has noted a worrying 'parallel increase' in resistance to that antibiotic.
First cases of 'incurable' antibiotic resistant gonorrhea found in North America as CDC warns of public health nightmare
The long feared nightmare of U.S. public health officials has come to pass with the news anti-biotic resistant Gonorrhea has been detected in North American patients.
A study released today by the Journal of the American Medical Association announced it had found nine patients with a strain of the sexually transmitted disease immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic.
This confirms the fears of both the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation who warned last year that untreatable gonorrhea, the world's second most common STD would soon become a reality.
'This is the translation of the lab information into what the clinical consequence is.'
Out of 133 patients who returned for a 'test of cure' visit, nine remained positive with the disease, which is roughly one in 15 people. This study revealed the first time that cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea had been found in humans in North America.
In the past studies have noted only individual case reports of untreatable gonorrhea cases in the UK, Austria, France, Norway and Japan.
Adding to the growing fears of health officials in the U.S., Robert Kirkcaldy of the CDC writes in an editorial that the disease is becoming a threatening disease.
'Cephalosporin treatment failures have now been documented in North America,' writes Kirkcaldy.
'Although this milestone was expected, its arrival is deeply troubling.'
In each year, gonorrhea infects near to 700,000 Americans each year - producing symptoms such as painful urination, abdominal pain, genital discharge, itching and infertility in women.
Women who contract both HIV and gonorrhea are more likely to pass HIV onto their children than women with only HIV.
Just one year ago, Gail Bolan, director of the CDC's sexually transmitted disease prevention program said that the 'threat of untreatable gonorrhea is emerging rapidly.'
At the time of her comments, only 1.7 percent of test cultures of the disease were condsidered immune in laboratory environments.
Vanessa Allen said it proves how fast antibiotic resistance is evolving in disease.
'Out results aren't generalizable to the overall concentration because they all came from one clinic,' said Allen.
'But basically, the problem appears worse than we originally thought.'
'I think without a doubt this will become a bigger problem,' said Allen.
'The next threat is when, not if, the same thing happens with ceftriaxone. And then what?'
In light of growing drug-resistance worldwide, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended clinicians no longer prescribe a single antibiotic treatment.
Instead, they now advise that patients receive an injection of ceftriaxone as well as a week-long course of oral azithromycin or doxycycline.
'Clinicians must remain vigilant for cephalosporin treatment failures and report suspected cases to the local or state health department,' wrote Kirkcaldy.
'Patients with persistent or recurrent symptoms shortly after treatment should be retested for gonorrhea by culture.'
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full capacity, the label "selected by RAEL" on some articles does not
mean that I agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL"
means that I believe it is important for the people of this planet to
know about what people think or do, even when what they think or do is
completely stupid and against our philosophy. When I selected articles
in the past about stupid Christian fundamentalists in America praying
for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader was stupid enough to believe
that I was supporting praying to change the weather. So, when I select
articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, racist,
revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or religion, or any
other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It just
means that it is important for all human beings to know about them.
Common sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good
enough to understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug
decriminalization, it is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment,
which in this case was very clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs,
as it is stupid to throw depressed and sad people (as only depressed and
sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin their life with a criminal
record. That does not mean that there is any change to the Message which
says clearly that we must not use any drug except for medical purposes.
The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be absolute.
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anti-Semites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your
enemies or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight
them. With love and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence
of the French philosopher Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
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