Sexually
transmitted diseases are very prevalent issues that are constantly on the rise
in today’s society. One of those popular diseases is known as gonorrhea. Gonorrhea
is an infectious disease that is normally treated with antibiotics, but due to
a recent study there have been findings of an untreatable form of this particular
disease. The disease is untreatable because it is resistant to the antibiotic cephalosporin. Gonorrhea has a history of
being resistant to antimicrobial agents over a course of many years. The
disease is becoming such a threat because they are finding traces of it that is
multi-drug resistant right here in the United States. Due to the new trend of
it being less susceptible and paired with the history of it thriving in society
this is definitely a disease that needs to be eradicated as soon as possible.
Now that it is being publicized and that reports have been made of treatment
failures in other countries, momentum is finally being picked up in the pace
for putting the efforts needed into helping eliminate gonorrhea. The article
stated how authors including Gail A. Bolan, director of the Division of STD
prevention in Atlanta, and Judith N. WAsserheirt, vice chair of the Department
of Global Health in Washington, have issued out an urgent call for action to be
taken to halt the continued increases in the drug related disease. The fact
that it is hitting close to home puts it into reality that it has the potential
globally affect the world. The fact that attention it just now being drawn to
this issue because it is threatening to the United States is partly disturbing.
The disease has obviously been around for a very long time and more could have
been done before now. Prevention should be the main thing that is promoted so
we won’t even have to worry about any form of Gonorrhea, whether untreatable or
not. When the realization that gonorrhea was resistant to certain antimicrobial
agents was revealed, I feel as if that should have been a red flag right there
and a sign that more studies should have been conducted to help work against
this problem immediately.
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