A public health report on a U.K. man who has contracted an incurable case of gonorrhea is being cited as a cause for alarm and greater motivation towards the use of contraceptives during sexual intercourse.
The multi-drug-resistant strand in question is being widely referred to as a 'super gonorrhea' that doctors have been ineffective in finding a solution for. According to records, the individual carrying the unique sexually transmitted disease reports that in addition to his regular intimate partner he slept with someone in Southeast Asia about a month before the infection's onset. His case came to the attention of professionals in the medical field when he initially sought care earlier in the year. Since then he has been receiving treatments of the powerful antibiotic, ertapenem, intravenously.
Every so often drug-resistant STIs do rear up around the world, but cures for them are usually discovered before long. As for gonorrhea, there are two drugs that are most commonly used for the remedy of patients. Those are azithromycin and the so-called 'last-resort treatment,' ceftriaxone. It is reported that the man's infection failed to respond to both, as it did to the antibiotic spectinomycin.
Doctors ought to know more about what course of action they'll take in addressing the strand after the results of his next test come back in mid-April.
