Gonorrhea Update: Drugs Fail, but it's a Well-Known Problem Among Homosexuals

Public health officialdom admits who the 'vulnerable' groups are and offers--useless one-size-fits-all avenues

Reference is made to yesterday’s posting:

Gonorrhea Rates Skyrocket--and 'the Experts™' Recommend Handing Out more Condoms

Translation, emphases, and bottom lines mine.

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With Infections Skyrocketing, Doctors Fear Treatment will Stop Working

By Espen Bierud, NRK, 19 March 2024 [source]

In the midst of a sharp increase in gonorrhea cases, experts now believe that there is a real chance that the medicines against the disease may stop working.

Look here! The gonorrhea bacteria are like small coffee beans inside these cells.

Senior physician Åse Haugstvedt points to a microscope image.

Gonorrhea infection was very rare in Norway 20 years ago.

But particularly after the pandemic, venereal disease has increased sharply.

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (IPH) registered around 3,000 cases last year. This was an increase of approximately 40% from the previous year.

January and February 2024 show a further increase.

‘It looks like it continues. So far in 2024, there are over 600 cases nationally. It is very disturbing if it continues like this’, says Haugstvedt.

She has worked with sexual health at the Olafia Clinic for 20 years.

Meds May Stop Working

In Oslo, specialist Åse Haugstvedt is concerned.

Many countries, including major Western European countries such as Spain and France, are now struggling with gonorrhea bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics.

It makes me very worried. People travel a lot, have sex on holiday, and come home from, for example, Thailand. It is easy to get a resistant gonococci back in your suitcase [easy, just make travel much more expensive or ban it].

The bacterium has gradually become resistant to several types of antibiotics that previously suppressed the disease [so, you’re saying this is…expected].

The medicine has simply stopped working [no word about over-use of antibiotics in recent decades makes this yet another example of media obfuscation by omission].

We’re Down to One Antibiotic

It's starting to get really troublesome. Now we really only have one good medicine left, which we use in Norway.

The drug is called ceftriaxone [brand names Ceftrisol Plus and Rocephin], and must be given by injection.

So, they get an injection in the buttock, explains the doctor.

But even that injection in the butt can't save everyone [see below for known side effects, which are also omitted from the ‘reporting’ here].

The first case of gonorrhea infection that could not be cured by this medicine was detected in Japan in 2009 [I’ve highlighted the countries].

A few years later, the same thing happened in France, Spain, Australia and Singapore to name a few, according to Oslo University Hospital.

In 2018, the first case of this type of gonorrhea was also found in England, the BBC reported.

This means that, as of today, there is no medicine that can help people with that type of gonorrhea [which is…? yet another blank].

They have to live with infections in their bodies.

‘Embarrassing to Say So’

Gonorrhea is highly contagious and can lead to painful infections and infertility.

The disease can be transmitted through, among other things, unprotected sex, kissing, and oral sex.

The most vulnerable groups are those under 30 and men who have sex with men [oh, look, now we know a bit more about who are most likely affected].

The experts encourage more condom use and frequent testing. Many people have the infection without noticing any symptoms [bright idea to make ‘those under 30’ and ‘men who have sex with men’ stand out].

It is also not certain that the infection will show up on regular tests [what’s the false positivity rate of gonorrhea testing? Turns out that there’s no study that ‘evaluated the effectiveness of screening for gonorrhea versus no screening’].

If you have been in contact with someone with gonorrhea, then everyone should get their throat tested. We see some who have negative samples, until we get them tested in the throat [talk about over-reach; notice the identical ‘contact tracing’ shitshow that worked wonders with Covid].

The head doctor also says that infection tracking will be very important in order to break the chain of infection going forward [sure thing, but there’s another thing: less promiscuity, stable relationships, or even chastity works, as opposed to screening and contact-tracing].

I think that when it comes to chlamydia, it was very easy for the patients to speak up themselves. But now it seems that they think it's very disgusting and embarrassing, so they don't dare speak up [might that be because it mainly affects ‘men who have sex with men’?]. So then the health personnel have to be on the pitch and do that job for them [armchair activism from public health officials, what could go wrong?].

And you do that?

At least we do the best we can.

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Bottom Li(n)es

Read together with the above-linked piece, we do get some more ‘insights’ into the workings of legacy media once again.

The lies by omission are glaringly obvious:

• Apparently, there’s a drug-resistant strain emerging (see the CDC’s website)

• There is, of course, the option of multi-drug treatment plans, but this is omitted

• Screening is ‘fine’, until it cannot distinguish positive from negative cases; granted, this website relates data from about a decade ago, but if we haven’t made substantial progress with regard to the false positive rate, any increase of testing is pointless, to say nothing about the associated cost-benefit calculation

• The same holds true for contact tracing and public health officialdom’s desire to ‘break the chain of infection’; while there’s obviously a bit more sense to do so with diseases like gonorrhea (as opposed to, say, respiratory viruses like Sars-Cov-2), I doubt that the infrastructure is in place to perform this kind of activity…

• …that is, unless, public health officialdom would somehow ‘know’ about the those most at-risk, which are hinted at: ‘those under 30 and men who have sex with men’, which reeks a bit of the ‘monkeypox’ scare of yesteryear

• Moreover, as we learned recently from the (admittedly piss-poor quality) studies concerning online dating, even ‘those under 30’ who fall in the very promiscuous groups are quite few in numbers (approx. 20-25%, and it’s unclear how high the share of homosexuals would be in this subsection of the population)

The Unbearable Sadness of Online Dating

'The Science™' on Social Media Overuse Among Teens

All told, another day, yet another example of crappy ‘journalism’, which at-best revealed, quite tucked away in-between the lines, what the problem appears to be (same as with ‘monkeypox’): an STD that mainly affects frequent-travelling homosexuals whose ‘tripping’ (pun intended) from one ‘pride’ extravaganza to the next one appears to be the main feature spreading this problem around.

This is not to say that heterosexuals with promiscuous proclivities aren’t contributing to this problem, but it’s neither a ‘public health issue’ that warrants society-wide efforts nor does ‘the Science™’ offer any quick-and-easy, one-size-fits-all ‘solutions’ (such as ‘universal screening; same with cancer screenings, by the way, whose false positive rates are also very high, which is why we don’t to them).

Lest we forget, no, I’m not in favour of banning anything or anyone, but as things stand, if you’d like to engage in ‘risky’ behaviour, be my guest.

Just don’t expect me to be happy to pay.