Gonorrhea Superbug
May 1st, 2013Via: MSNBC:
“Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,” Christianson said. “This is very dangerous.”
“It’s an emergency situation,” said William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. “As time moves on, it’s getting more hazardous.”
This gonorrhea strain, HO41, was discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker who had been screened in 2009. The bacteria has since been found in Hawaii, California and Norway.
Because it resists current antibiotic treatment, the strain has been placed in the superbug category with other resistant bacteria, such as MRSA and CRE. These superbugs kill about half the people they attack, and nearly one in 20 hospital patients become infected with one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Though no deaths from HO41 have been reported, efforts to combat it must continue, Smith said.
Uh oh, beware the Death Clap!
“These superbugs kill about half the people they attack, and nearly one in 20 hospital patients become infected with one” according to CDC.
That is really shocking. What it boils down to is that if you are admitted into a hospital, you have a 1 in 40 chance of dying from a superbug that you contracted at that hospital. Am I really reading that right? :O
This project was established to (1) Provide surveillance insight into the emergence of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, (2) better understand and characterize bacteriophages from antibiotic-resistant, sexually-transmitted, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and (3) develop phage-based prophylaxis and therapy to stop prevent further emergence of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Phage_therapy
@mangrove:
I believe that’s correct. The important lesson here is to stay out of the hospital. My brother just recently died in a US hospital. He was very trusting. Every extra day in the hospital greatly increases your risk of dying from superbugs.
I used a lot of hand sanitizer while visiting him. Hospitals are deadly places. Stay healthy.