Health Watch!! African Americans Are At Risk Of Contracting Untreatable Gonorrhea More Than Any Other Race

Once I seen this Alert I had to Repost It and You Should Do The Same! STDs & AIDs are one of the Top Killers in the Urban Communities and Should be brought to the awareness of others more frequently. Couples Should Talk to their partners about using protection more and getting check ups at least once a month, for safety reasons because, just like the STD Gonorrhea it may not be as easily treatable by then.

This is not a joke you guys...GET TESTED BEFORE ITS TO LATE!!

"Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with NewsOne about the early warning signs around the globe that gonorrhea is increasingly becoming resistant to drugs and may soon become immune to medical treatment in the United States. 


The Associated Press reported this week that the World Health Organization released a global action plan to tackle a form of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, which is emerging around the globe — first in Japan then more recently to Britain, Australia, France, Sweden, and Norway. _NewsOne

In response to questions, U.S. health officials told NewsOne that doctors here should increase studies of the bacterial infection that can cause inflammation, complicate pregnancies, cause infertility, and facilitate HIV infection.

“We can say that we are seeing early warning signs abroad that the disease is becoming resistant to treatment,” says Dr. Robert Kirkcaldy, a medical epidemiologist in the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, “which is why we should take action now.”

According to Kirkcaldy, there is the very real prospect of untreatable gonorrhea emerging in the United States, especially in communities of color.

If so, this spells bad news for African Americans. Dr. Kirkcaldy says it’s difficult to predict how long it could take untreatable gonorrhea to emerge in the United States. Medical experts speculate, though, that it could be in about a decade.

Overall, African Americans remain disproportionately affected by gonorrhea, accounting for the majority of infections (69 percent or 167,655 cases) in 2010, says Dr. Kirkcaldy, who cites the latest available statistics. The infection rate among Blacks is 20 times as high as Whites (512.2 vs. 26.0 per 100,000 people) and 8 times as high among Hispanics, he adds. While reported gonorrhea rates have hit historically low levels in recent years, the number of cases still remain unacceptably high in the United States." _NewsOne

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