Unstoppable Sexually Transmitted Disease: New Strain of Gonorrhea Resists All Antibiotics and Could Spread Quickly
Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Under: Pestilences
DailyMail.co.uk (excerpts): A sexually transmitted disease that is resistant to all drugs has been discovered by scientists. They warn the strain of super-gonorrhea could spread very quickly unless better treatments are developed. Although only one case has been confirmed, experts fear many more may have gone unreported. Until now, gonorrhea has been very easy to treat with antibiotics called cephalosporins. Patients usually need only a single pill or jab. Swedish scientists who have analyzed the new strain found in Japan believe that over the decades the disease has mutated to become resistant to current treatments. Magnus Unemo of the Research Laboratory for the Pathogenic Neisseria in Orebo, described it as an alarming discovery. Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it, he said. While it is still too early to assess if this new strain has become widespread, the history of newly emergent resistance in the bacterium suggests that it may spread rapidly unless new drugs and effective treatment programs are developed. Dr. David Livermore of the Health Protection Agency said that while antibiotics were still effective at treating gonorrhea there were signs of growing resistance to them. Our lab tests show that the bacteria are becoming less sensitive to these cephalosporins, with a few treatment failures reported. Prevention is better than cure, especially as cure becomes harder. The new strain of the sexually transmitted disease called H041 - was found in Japan and leaves doctors with no other option than to try untested medicines to combat it. Left untreated, it can cause infertility in women and men and can be life-threatening if it spreads to the blood and joints. One of the problems with gonorrhea is that symptoms take time to become apparent. Around half the women and one in ten men will not be aware they have the disease for several months.
My Comments: While much of the world "thumbs their noses at God's commandments and statutes when it comes to sexual promiscuity, we can see the rise in resistant sexually transmitted diseases, and there is no cure for AIDS. AIDS statistics are staggering and people wonder why. Hello...there is a God in heaven; He created you and He has given His holy commandments: "Do not commit adultery," Exodus 20:14. "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man commits does not affect his body in this way, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body" I Corinthians 6:18. Just as you suffer disease when you disobey God's laws against adultery and fornication, people too are on their way to eternal hell if they disregard the call of God in their life, to receive Jesus as their redeemer. It is time to turn to the Lord and surrender to Him. There is no guarantee that you will have the opportunity to receive the Lord as Savior tomorrow.
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