Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday announced delisting of a powerful class of antibiotics — fluoroquinolones — that until now had been the first line defense against gonorrhea in most parts of the United States.
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In a survey conducted across 26 U.S. cities last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found rapidly spreading cases of highly drug resistant gonorrhea.
Accounting for nearly 13 percent of all cases of the sexually transmitted disease, rising from just 1 percent in 2001, federal authorities revealed.
Unveiling facts, while nearly 7 percent of gonorrhea cases among heterosexual men were reported to drug-resistant, only about 0.6 percent were drug-resistant in 2001.
While Philadelphia recorded the highest percentage of drug-resistant cases at 27 percent, a dramatic increase from only 1.2 percent in 2004, Phoenix reported a decline from 2.7 percent in 2004 to 1 percent currently.
Exhibiting concerns over mounting menace, Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., director of the CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention said, "That's a really dramatic trajectory in terms of emerging resistance."
"To make a bad problem even worse, we're also seeing a decline in the development of new antibiotics to treat these infections," he added.
Gonorrhea is the second most commonly sexually-transmitted disease. It is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a bacterium that can grow and multiply easily in the warm, moist areas of the reproductive tract, including the cervix, uterus, and fallopian tubes in women, and in the urethra in women and men, it infects over 700,000 people in the United States annually.
The disease affects people of all age, race ,socioeconomic level but the highest rates of infection are among sexually active teens, young adults and African-American. In the early stages of gonorrheal infection, over half of infected women have no symptoms. If symptoms do occur, there may be burning on urination, frequent urination, yellowish vaginal discharge, redness of the genitals, swelling of the genitals, and a burning or itching of the vaginal area.
The individuals with multiple sexual partners and who use no barrier contraception, such as condoms, are most at-risk for developing gonorrhea.
Since early 1990’s, Fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics incuding ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, or levofloxacin had been the first line defense antibiotics in the treatment of gonorrhea because of their high efficacy, ready availability, and convenience as a single-dose, oral therapy. However, increasing incidence of fluoroquinolone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae has called for change in treatment regimen.
Consequently, the Federal Centres for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends the use of a different class of antibiotics, the cephalosporins, for the treatment of gonorrhea.
Only after reading your
Only after reading your comments i realized that the picture in the article was that of a black woman, otherwise before that i had different viewpoint altogether "Picture of a WOMAN (not black, white or brown)" Get mature and GET A LIFE
I really find the picture offensive.
Seriously it's in terrible taste. At best it's unconscious racism, at worst it is an outright intentionally hateful act. By continuing to leave it up there you are equally irresponsible.
Drug-resistant gonorrhea on rise
For far too many countries around the world black people have been the face of derision and ridicule the amount to and intellectual terrorism, psychological and physical beating. This "child of a major problem" has its roots directly from slavery where many nations systematically drove national, corporate and religious policy towards the destruction and humiliations of various races and cultures of black people. Many years ago it was made easy because we were killed if we were able to read or construct reasoned argument - now intellectuals who should know better attempt to stifle quality of peoples' lives. As for black people support wrongs against black people who are at the mercy of bad thinking people to be frightened by there re-action rather than black people's greaster good. The disease affects all regardless of races. To those black people in the sex industry - you are abusing me, my sisters the world over and my global brothers. All the descriptions of black people in the pornographic industry relate to abuse. The lacrosse team may be innocent but what were they upto in the first place to warrant the allegation? Mr. Simus ( Radio host/DJ) the language of abuse has finally caught up with him. The show never tries to address issues in a problem-solving manner. He may be no racists but he is incline to have racists moments and he felt comfortable doing so. What happened to using a "United Colours of Gonorrhea" depicting various races and cultures affected by the disease in a photograph. It took me five minutes to come up with that - I'm no ad man. Far too often multi-racial is portraid as meaning how many different black people are married to or have relations with. The self determination of a culture ever mean anything?
I'm tired of this "we all got to live together" rhetoric.
Ancast of the UK, London
PS - English spellings
Gonorrhea
Why is there a face of a Black woman depicting someone with Gonorrhea on this intro of this article? Is this a back-hand slap by the media because of what happened with Don Imus?
No Sir
[quote=Dsharris2016]Why is there a face of a Black woman depicting someone with Gonorrhea on this intro of this article? Is this a back-hand slap by the media because of what happened with Don Imus?[/quote]
The picture comes directly from the site of Department of Health and Human Sciences, and does not in any way represent our ideas. Our sincere apologies if it caused any inconvenience to anybody.
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