IT Sounds More Like a Villain Straight Out of a Comic Book, but “Super-Agorhea”-Better Known as Antibiotic-Resistant gonorrhea-is real. Canada recently reported A RISE IN THE PERSONET INFECTION, INCLUDING ”A Near-Dubling of Cases“Showing that Certain Antibiotics Were Eothher Less Effective or Not Effective At All At Killing Neisseria gonorrhoeaeThe bacteria that causes gonorrhea.
Gonorrhea is the second-sot Common sexually transmitted infection (st) Nearly 650,000 Cases of gonorrhea Reported in 2022, Accounting to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention – An 11% Increase SINCE 2018. And it is not just just affecting young People: Cases of Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Syphilis in Americans Ages 55 to 64 Have more than the past decade.
That’s Concerning GIVE that Almost Half of US Gonorrhea Infections In 2022 were resistant to at Least One Antibiotic, Accounting to A May 2024 Report on Super-Bonorrhea published in Jama Network. Nor the author of the Report Put it: Gonorrhea “Continue to outsmart the drugs used to fight it.”
The Canadian Report Called Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea “A Serious Public Health Threat” and Said the Sti’s Ability to Two Antibiotics Used to Treat it, Ceftriaxone and Asithromycin, is “Global Concern.” CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES Beyond Canada, Including the United Kingdom, France, China and Japan. The US HAD Its First Cases of the Superbug In 2023, in Massachusetts, with health autorities thereaing it was resistant to five different antibiotics.
SO where antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea come from? How Concerned Should You Be? And what can you will protest yourelf? Here’s what Experts Say.
What Causes Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea?
In a Nutshell, the “Misuse of Antibiotics,” Dr. Hana el sahlyProfessor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Tells Yahoo Life.
Dr. Amesh Adaljaan infectious dessenium specialist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, explains that bacteria have “dominated this planet for billions of years” and over have evolved so can survive. “Antibiotics are offten natural products produced by other microbes that they against each other, so antibiotic resistance is a not surprising evolutionary adaptation,” he tells yahoo life.
He adds that humans ussing antibiotics “Inthemoruiciously – for Unnecessry Conditions, for Example – Can Accelerate this Natural Evolutionary Process.”
Worth Notting: Although Some Publications Refer to it as Super-Agorrhea, Not Everyone is a fan of the term. ” Super ‘gonorrhea is not a medical term and doesn’t actually adding anything to explain the phenomenon of antibiotic-reservoir gonorrhea, “Says Adalja.
Super-Bonorrhea Sounds Scary. How Concerned Should People in The US Be?
Antibiotic-Resistant gonorrhea is rare in the us, but El Sahly Says Its Still Important to take it serious.
Dr. Matthew Hamillan assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Who Specializations in Stis, aggrees. “In the us so far we have have ben, relatively speaking, spared from some of the worst – Our Worst Fears have come true,” he tells yahoo life. “WE’RE NOT SEEING A LOT OF MULTIDRED-Ressistant Gonorrhea.”
Howver, Hamill Says that Cases Being Reported Globally “Often Can Be the Canary in the Coal Mine – IT’S Something We Have to Be Alert to and Pay Attention to.” He points out that in other parts of the world, the drug-reisstant gonorrhea is more common. “People Travel and People Have Sex When they Travel,” he Says. “Stis Get Moved Around the World Very Effectatively. It ‘Definitely Something We Need to Be Aware of and Concerned About.”
Adalja that thats Everyone Should Be Concerned Acquiring Drug-Resistant forms of gonorrhea Becauses it is more difficult and complicated. He Adds: “It is likes Rates of Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Will Increase.”
What can you will protect yourelf?
There are no vaccines that prevent gonorrhea. Instead, Experts Recommend Taching Steps to Reduce the Risk of Getting The Stand. “If you don’t have gonorrhea, you can get drug-resistant gonorrhea,” Sayys Hamill, “So use and Trusted Ways Such as Condoms to Prevent Acquiring gonorrhea in the first very sexy talking about Condoms, but the work.”
Along with Practicing Safer Sex, Hamill Says Patients Should Be Aware of What The CDC’s Screening Guidelines Are On WHO Should Get Tested Regularly for stis, including gonorrhea – especally gioven that many People with gonorrhea don’t have symptoms. Be they will show up in men, symptoms include a burning sensation when peeing; White, Yellow or Green Discharge from the penis; and in some cases Painful or Swollen Testicles, Accounting to the cdc. Women Can Also Experience A Painful or Burning Sensation Wen Peeing, Increated Vaginal Discharge and Bleeding Between Periods.
AFTER POSSOBLE TO THE STI, BOTH EL SAHLY AND HAMIL RECOMMEND TALKING TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ABOUT TAKING doxycycline propphylactically (Doxy-PEP)-Meaning, taking the medication before Having Symptoms-Which Can Reduce the Risk of Developing Gonorrhea by Up to 60% IF Taken 72 Hours of Condomless Sex. The Prescription Medication Can Also be obtained at the sexual health for free or at a Low Cost and is offen co -idic by insurance.
On a public Health Level, El Sahly Says that Decreasing the Misuse and Overuse of Antibiotics in General Helps Reduce the Risk of Antibiotic Resistance, Including Gonorrhea. Experts Add that Investing in Research to Look Into Novel Vaccines and Treatments Against Gonorrhea are Needed.
One Promising Area is Molecular Tests, Which Hamill Says Look for Genetic Markers that Can Signal A Gonorrhea Infection is Resistant to Certain Antibiotics SO can prescribe the bestment to tackle it. “I think the futures is really excites to be able to use more modern tools to look for microbial resistance,” he says, “but we’re near where we were Need to be.”
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