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Edit: common STDs that are treated by antibiotics are becoming drug resistant like anything can be that is treated with antibiotics. Point is don’t think becaus

Edit: common STDs that are treated by antibiotics are becoming drug resistant like anything can be that is treated with antibiotics. Point is don’t think because you can take an antibiotic and make syphilis go away now that you won’t encounter a drug resistant strain now or in the very near future! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161 Lol there’s no cure for syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hep b, genital herpes, etc. The recent year over year increase in STD rates in the US has been very well documented. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311

dimgl 8y ago
What are you talking about? There's cures for literally every single one of those diseases you mentioned.
- dawhizkid 8y ago
  Antibiotics aren’t going to work forever on new strains of common STDs. Already seeing rise in drug resistant strains. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161
denzil_correa 8y ago
> Lol there’s no cure for syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hep b, etc etc. Each and everyone disease you listed here can be cured. Example, Syphilis - https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/lab/default.htm https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/lab/default.htm
- dawhizkid 8y ago
  Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161
  - JumpCrisscross 8y ago
    > Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already You said there's "no cure." That's different. Reducing frequencies of a disease for which there is literally no cure in exchange for higher frequencies of a disease for which there is emerging antibiotic resistance is still a good trade. The article you cite regarding rising STD rates claims the cause is "a decline in funding for state and local agencies working on prevention" as well as "an extreme lack of awareness about STDs and sexual health" and "doctors are not screening and testing for these diseases and patients [not knowing] they need to ask to be tested" [1]. The only link to HIV stated is "people are not afraid of dying from HIV," not a link to prep. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311
- hndamien 8y ago
  If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.
  - uniblih 8y ago
    > If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich. May never happen [0], but one can wish. Although it doesn't have a cure, the treatability, prevalence, and general harmlessness of herpes make it less of an issue than the "curable" STDs. Most doctors don't even bother testing for it [1]. [0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-have-a-herpes-vaccine https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-hav... [1] https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm
    - masonic 8y ago
      general harmlessness of herpes Perhaps you missed that HSV is a vector for cancers (e.g Kaposi sarcoma).
      - esf 8y ago
        Kaposi Sarcoma is caused by HHV-8, a completely different virus than HSV-1/2. They are in the herpes virus family, but this is a huge virus group including eg chicken pox (HHV-3) and Epstein Barr virus that causes mono (HHV-4).

dimgl 8y ago

What are you talking about? There's cures for literally every single one of those diseases you mentioned.

dawhizkid 8y ago
Antibiotics aren’t going to work forever on new strains of common STDs. Already seeing rise in drug resistant strains. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161

denzil_correa 8y ago

> Lol there’s no cure for syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hep b, etc etc. Each and everyone disease you listed here can be cured. Example, Syphilis - https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/lab/default.htm https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/lab/default.htm

dawhizkid 8y ago
Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already You said there's "no cure." That's different. Reducing frequencies of a disease for which there is literally no cure in exchange for higher frequencies of a disease for which there is emerging antibiotic resistance is still a good trade. The article you cite regarding rising STD rates claims the cause is "a decline in funding for state and local agencies working on prevention" as well as "an extreme lack of awareness about STDs and sexual health" and "doctors are not screening and testing for these diseases and patients [not knowing] they need to ask to be tested" [1]. The only link to HIV stated is "people are not afraid of dying from HIV," not a link to prep. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311
hndamien 8y ago
If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.
- uniblih 8y ago
  > If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich. May never happen [0], but one can wish. Although it doesn't have a cure, the treatability, prevalence, and general harmlessness of herpes make it less of an issue than the "curable" STDs. Most doctors don't even bother testing for it [1]. [0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-have-a-herpes-vaccine https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-hav... [1] https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm
  - masonic 8y ago
    general harmlessness of herpes Perhaps you missed that HSV is a vector for cancers (e.g Kaposi sarcoma).
    - esf 8y ago
      Kaposi Sarcoma is caused by HHV-8, a completely different virus than HSV-1/2. They are in the herpes virus family, but this is a huge virus group including eg chicken pox (HHV-3) and Epstein Barr virus that causes mono (HHV-4).