Bad News For Nappy Headed Ho's
Posted by Slobokan @ 23:30 · 173 words · print
Attention: Nappy Headed Ho's
Gonorrhea has become so resistant to one class of antibiotics that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the drugs should no longer be used to treat it.
Now that fluoroquinolones, such as Cipro, are no longer recommended, only a single class of antibiotics, called cephalosporins, is left to treat gonorrhea, the second-most common infectious disease reported to the CDC, after chlamydia. In 2005, nearly 340,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported nationwide, according to the CDC, which estimates that twice as many people are actually infected.
The last gonorrhea treatment to be dropped because of antibiotic resistance was penicillin in the 1980s, said John Douglas, director of the CDC's Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention. "This is not doomsday, but it is a public health wake-up call," he said.
How long will it be before that last class of antibiotics wont be affective either? Why take your chances? Keep your little nappy headed ho self home for a change.
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