Austrian stabbed with prostitution in Cambodia with new strain appearing to be incurable
A new strain of gonorrhea, hypergonorrhea, could make sexually transmitted disease “Major global threat” as it will become incurable, doctors warn.
The first case became known to the medical community when an Austrian contracted gonorrhea from a prostitute in Cambodia.
The unknown man, about 50 years old, had unprotected sex while on vacation in Cambodia in April. Five days later, when he returned home, he felt pain when urinating and secretions from his penis. Medical examinations showed that he had gonorrhea and he was given the prescribed antibiotics. While the medication relieved his symptoms, the man remained positive – which meant the treatment had failed.
Doctors described the strain “Extensively drug resistant” and different from what they had seen in the past. They warned that gonorrhea could be virtually incurable if the strain spread.
The head of the team that made the report, Dr Sonja Pleininger of the Austrian Office for Health and Food Safety, warned that such executives “pose a significant global threat to public health”. “If such executives manage to create many cases of gonorrhea can become incurable “ mentioned features.
The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 62 million cases of gonorrhea occur each year. In 2010 it caused about 900 deaths, compared to 1,100 in 1990. In the USA. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 820,000 new cases occur each year, of which 570,000 are between the ages of 15 and 24. In 2011, 321,849 cases were reported in the United States. It is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease after chlamydia. Following the introduction of a gonorrhea control program in the 1970s, the incidence of gonorrhea decreased by 74% (1974-1997).
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