Drug resistant super bug gonorhea?

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Condoms? Non-barrier methods won't protect you.

Get tested regularly. Don't mess around etc.

There is always a risk. If you finger a girl who has something and touch yourself before gloving up you can give yourself an infected. It's that simple. You brush your teeth too vigorously and make your gums bleed and then go down on someone with an infection such as herpes or HIV you have a chance at catching it.

STDs/STIs are scary; you'd have to be obsessed with cleanliness to make sure that there is a very low risk of transmitting anything. The only 100% avoidance method is celibacy.

Be safe, stay clean, get tested. Choose partners with the same mentality.
 

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Use condoms. Get tested regularly. Decide how much risk you're willing to take while you're not drunk or horny. Breathe deeply. Talk openly with potential partners about how far you're willing to go with and without condoms.
 

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Even if this gets bad quickly, it's going to be a long time before you should be more afraid of this than, say, driving a car. Wear a condom and be responsible and don't let small risks like this terrify you.

Also, I hate to sound remotely anti-sex, but it's usually not hard to figure out if someone sleeps around easily, and if they do they're statistically a much higher-risk partner.

Edit: I have to say this too -- this "worse than AIDS" stuff is bullshit. A drug resistant strain of gonorrhea may be a world health risk, but it's still gonorrhea. Gonorrhea is just not HIV/AIDS. I have no idea what dumb alarmist doctor/health agency/whatever started this media story, but even in the short-run, that evaluation is pretty much scaremongering.
 
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thanks Native, that was my instinct too. Aspects of this sounded sketchy, alarmist and suspicious to me. I appreciate your response and that's why I wanted to post here to get some context.

I want to take it seriously, but the tone of this seems off.

Two weeks ago, I think 3 men (gay) died of meningitis in West Hollywood and despite the doomsday tone the story was getting in the press, the CDC was still reluctant to call it an "outbreak"... that story totally vanished in a week.

It's tricky finding the proper context to a lot of what's out there; trying to discern what's true and what's trying to just get you to click on an ad.

Even if this gets bad quickly, it's going to be a long time before you should be more afraid of this than, say, driving a car. Wear a condom and be responsible and don't let small risks like this terrify you.

Also, I hate to sound remotely anti-sex, but it's usually not hard to figure out if someone sleeps around easily, and if they do they're statistically a much higher-risk partner.

Edit: I have to say this too -- this "worse than AIDS" stuff is bullshit. A drug resistant strain of gonorrhea may be a world health risk, but it's still gonorrhea. Gonorrhea is just not HIV/AIDS. I have no idea what dumb alarmist doctor/health agency/whatever started this media story, but even in the short-run, that evaluation is pretty much scaremongering.
 

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For as long as gonorrhea has been known about and treated it has developed resistance to each of the drugs used as cures over the years. This new strain is just the latest evolution of the disease and will no doubt be totally curable by medical science in the years to come .... until the next evolution of the disease. There are a number of links on the CDC's webpage that address the new strain:

Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea - STD information from CDC

Including this one from JAMA:

JAMA Network | JAMA | Cephalosporin-Resistant Gonorrhea in North America

.... which quotes a couple of studies that suggest that the failure rate of the current drug when used in treating the new strain can range from about 7% (in a study of several hundred cases) to 12% in a much smaller study. So it's hardly what I would define as a Super Bug at this stage of its development, but no doubt will be soon enough.
 

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thanks Native, that was my instinct too. Aspects of this sounded sketchy, alarmist and suspicious to me. I appreciate your response and that's why I wanted to post here to get some context.

I want to take it seriously, but the tone of this seems off.

Two weeks ago, I think 3 men (gay) died of meningitis in West Hollywood and despite the doomsday tone the story was getting in the press, the CDC was still reluctant to call it an "outbreak"... that story totally vanished in a week.

It's tricky finding the proper context to a lot of what's out there; trying to discern what's true and what's trying to just get you to click on an ad.

No problem. And I'm totally with you -- the way the media "informs" about disease outbreaks is a joke.

(also, I just 'got' your username. that's clever.)