Gonorrhea

Our Last Line of Defense Against Gonorrhea Is Failing

Health officials in the US have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that exhibited unusual resistance against the last two main antibiotics known to work against the dreaded sexually transmitted disease. Health officials reported the findings today at the 2016 STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta. It’s yet another disturbing reminder that our antibiotics are increasingly…

Health George Dvorsky Sep 22

Canada Blames ‘Social Media’ for Gonorrhea Epidemic

If these numbers are to be believed, the residents of Alberta are swimming in sexually transmitted diseases. Last year, the Canadian province saw an 80 percent increase in cases of gonorrhea. What to blame? According to the government, “social media.” No doubt that these stats are troubling. According to the Edmonton Journal, the province reported…

Health Alissa Walker Apr 26

Venereal Disease and Self-Experimentation Should Not Go Together

Early scientists were not at all shy about experimenting on themselves. Isaac Newton stuck a needle into his own eye socket. Robert Hooke shoved his arm into a vacuum chamber. And in the first episode of Sacrificed from Fusion, we learn what 18th century physician John Hunter thought was an effective way to investigate gonorrhea…

Tech News Diane Kelly Jul 14

CDC warns untreatable gonorrhea could spread like wildfire

There have been lots of warnings that gonorrhea is becoming untreatable, but now a new study gives a glimpse of what could happen if the last treatment option fails. And it’s not looking good. There used to be a number of treatment options for gonorrhea, including the commonly used antibiotic Cipro, but gonorrhea became resistant…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 14

Gonorrhea is becoming untreatable

Gonorrhea is the second-most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in the United States. But no biggie, right? It’s not like it’s HIV or herpes — you know, one of those STDs that sticks with you for life. Just pop some antibiotics and you’re good to go, right? Wrong. SciAm’s Christine Gorman gives you the lowdown…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 9

Letting Your Kid Play In a McDonald’s PlayPlace Means They’re Probably Covered In Poop

Remember the joy you felt climbing through the tunnels at your McDonald’s PlayPlace? Yeah, me too. And I don’t particularly remember getting sick. But according to Erin Carr-Jordan’s independent findings, we were all playing wrist-deep in pretty gnarly bacteria. Fun! Dr. Carr-Jordan, a professor of developmental psychology and mother of four, has spent the last…

Health Kwame Opam Jul 16

Scary Strain of Gonorrhea Is Resistant To All Known Antibiotics

The widespread sexually transmitted disease Gonorrhea used to be easy to treat, but not anymore. For the first time, scientists have identified a strain of this bacteria in Japan that is resistant to all known antibiotics. The researchers don’t know how far this strain has spread in the wild, but they fear it could be…

Tech News Kelly Jul 12

A STD Love Story: Gonorrhea Takes a Piece of Human DNA Forever

In the first instance of gene transfer between a human host and bacteria, Gonorrhea was recently discovered to have a human DNA fragment. What the..how the..huh? Supposedly, it’s a relatively recent evolutionary event and scientists have no idea what it means. And though it’s a pseudo love story between star crossed lovers, I’m actually scaring…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 15

The case of the gonorrhea-giving inflatable doll (a.k.a. the worst medical mystery ever)

Doctors are often confronted with less-than-savory aspects of the human condition. In the following medical paper, two doctors must solve the enigma of two sailors, one inflatable doll, and a communal case of the clap. This mystery is plumbed in Ellen Kleist and Harald Moi’s Ig Nobel Prize-winning paper (“Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23

Completely deranged sex education movie turns syphilis into Dracula (NSFW)

The Return of Count Spirochete was a 1970s educational film that warned kids about the dangers of doing it. This surreal cartoon depicted syphilis as a vampire and gonorrhea as an evil pitchfork-wielding demon who climbs in your urethra. This movie was produced by the National Naval Medical Center in 1973. Here’s the description of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 13

A Round of Applause for the Gonorrhea-Based Molecular Machine

Gonorrhea isn’t just an STD known for causing burning sensations when you pee; it’s the strongest organism known to man. Able to pull 100,000 times its body weight, the clap may soon serve a purpose greater than painfully reminding you of nights spent cruising the Red Light District. Scientists hope to use gonorrhea bacteria in…

Tech News Benny Goldman Apr 21

A Gonorrhea-Based Molecular Machine

Gonorrhea, a bacteria that’s transmitted via sexual intercourse and causes painful swelling, may turn out to be the perfect molecular machine. A group of researchers at Columbia University have announced findings proving that the bacteria can use its pili, long filaments that act like limbs, to pull with a force equivalent to 100,000 times its…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 21

Our Last Line of Defense Against Gonorrhea Is Failing

Canada Blames ‘Social Media’ for Gonorrhea Epidemic

Venereal Disease and Self-Experimentation Should Not Go Together

CDC warns untreatable gonorrhea could spread like wildfire

Gonorrhea is becoming untreatable

Letting Your Kid Play In a McDonald’s PlayPlace Means They’re Probably Covered In Poop

Scary Strain of Gonorrhea Is Resistant To All Known Antibiotics

A STD Love Story: Gonorrhea Takes a Piece of Human DNA Forever

The case of the gonorrhea-giving inflatable doll (a.k.a. the worst medical mystery ever)

Completely deranged sex education movie turns syphilis into Dracula (NSFW)

A Round of Applause for the Gonorrhea-Based Molecular Machine

A Gonorrhea-Based Molecular Machine

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