Drug resistant strain of Gonorrhea found in China

[Thecunninglinguist]

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Looks like a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea has been found in China. Should we be taking more care or not accepting services outside of penetrative sex, which should obviously alway be protected. Especially from tourers who may not have been in the country long?

[daviemac]

Nothing new, it's been around for years. External Link/Members Only

https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=68423.msg871648#msg871648

https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=68423.0

Been discussed loads of times.

https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=191563.msg1992114#msg1992114

[southcoastpunter]

we all make our own risk assessment and decide what risks we, in our individual circumstances, are happy to accept. Nothing has changed - only to be more mindful that certain STI's are becoming harder (and not (yet) impossible) to treat!

[Lou2019]

And reported in the Daily Fail too, say no more

[scutty brown]

Agreed, nothing new except for this - if true

Up to 98 percent of bacteria samples taken from patients with the STD across 13 Chinese provinces had the ability to sidestep frontline antibiotics, according to a new CDC report.

Gonorrhea had been effectively evading medications for years, but the chief worry among researchers is that China is reporting rates of a strain resistant to one of the last remaining effective antibiotics 40 times higher than those in the US, UK, and Canada.

If those reported figures are correct then there's something new going on

[scutty brown]

Found the original research
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and this is the key finding

During 2017−2022, the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains of N. gonorrhoeae increased in China, with resistance to ceftriaxone, the first-line treatment for gonorrhea, approximately tripling. Resistance varied by geographic region. Gonorrhea strains were resistant to other antibiotics at prevalences up to 97.6%, varying by antibiotic type.

However this needs to be noted

in 2022, China reported 96,313 cases of gonorrhea, making it the fourth most common notifiable infectious disease in the country after viral hepatitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, and syphilis.

96,313 reported cases of gonorrhea in a population of 1.4 billion. If true, a drop in the ocean. Of course we don't know how accurate that figure is, how many cases are untreated or unreported. Or given the seemingly small number, the reliability accuracy of the sampling regime