Here It Comes: Super Gonorrhea

[aarkieboy]

"I just got out of a telebriefing with the CDC. The atmosphere was not a jovial one. The words "gonorrhea epidemic" were thrown around in ominous tones. No one was up for hanging out after.

Did you know gonorrhea can kill you? It can, and it's also tragically effective at making women infertile. According to her journals, my great aunt Mabel was "barren," and my grandmother always told me it was probably from gonorrhea. The only reason we don't hear about these awful complications more often -- and we instead think of it as a little oops of an infection ("Can I still drink on these antibiotics?" "Yes." "Cool.") -- is because we've been able to kill it early with relative ease.

But over the past decades, gonorrhea has been mowing down our antibiotics. If this was the Olympic 400 IM, gonorrhea would be the Ryan Lochte and our antibiotics would be the guy from Moldova.

The list of effective antibiotics has been dwindling as the bacteria became resistant, and now it's down to one. Five years ago, the CDC said fluoroquinolones were no longer effective, but oral cephalosporins were still a common/easy treatment. Now injected ceftriaxone is the only recommended effective drug we have left. And it has to be given along with either azithromycin or doxycycline." (More)

[RepoMan]

I think this was all a ploy to get "Ryan Lochte" and "gonorrhea" together in one article, and I applaud the effort. I would have included a sentence like "Contrary to popular belief, a simply douche will not stop the infection, so put away the douchebag."

[Chuck]

New superhero, his flame shooting dick strikes fear into everyone.

[b0rg9]

keep reading this headline to The Monkees theme...

[FulanoDeTal]

I heard The Rolling Stones
♪here it comes, Here It Comes, HERE IT COMES! Here comes your super gonorrhea ♪