{"id":386,"date":"2011-07-12T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-07-12T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:11:04","slug":"scientists-discover-a-sexual-disease-resistant-to-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/scientists-discover-a-sexual-disease-resistant-to-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover A Sexual Disease Resistant To  Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new strain of <a href=\"\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2013376\/Unstoppable-sex-disease-New-strain-gonorrhoea-resists-antibiotics-spread-quickly.html\">gonorrhoea<\/a> discovered in Japan has been found by Swedish scientists to be  resistant to antibiotics and already changes have had to be<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gonorrhoea-Pic.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-387\" title=\"Gonorrhoea Pic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gonorrhoea-Pic-150x150.png?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Gonorrhoea Strain\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gonorrhoea-Pic.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gonorrhoea-Pic.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> made to the  type of antibiotic and dosage that is required to combat it. This is a  troubling discovery as this strain could snowball into epidemic  proportions. Gonorrhoea is a common sexual transmitted disease which is  normally easily treatable with cephalosporins (antibiotic) but this new  strain could change all that.<\/p>\n<p>It is now more important than ever  to use condoms during sex and to get yourself examined for STD&#8217;s if you  have indulged in unprotected sex. Young adults have the highest rate of  infection for gonorrhoea and they need to be aware of this new  development and should take appropriate precautions.<\/p>\n<p>Gonorrhoea is  a STD which can cause infertility in both sexes and can be life  threatening if left untreated. Hopefully pharmaceutical companies and  governments will pour in funds for researching alternative treatment for  this mutated strain and start spreading more awareness to stop this  disease from becoming something that may haunt our society for years to  come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new strain of gonorrhoea discovered in Japan has been found by Swedish scientists to be resistant to antibiotics and already changes have had to be made to the type of antibiotic and dosage that is required to combat it. This is a troubling discovery as this strain could snowball into epidemic proportions. Gonorrhoea is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,62],"tags":[77,78,39,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sexual-health-2","7":"category-stds-2","8":"tag-gonorrhoea","9":"tag-sexually-transmitted-disease","10":"tag-stds","11":"tag-sti","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}