Watch out Guys and Gals... Especially if you're suspicious of your wive's/Husband's "late night" activities. Keep in mind, this post is meant as a joke, but the article is a serious word of caution making headlines today. Antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' strains of gonorrhea are spreading
It has been predicted that in 5 years gonorrhea will be resistant to all current treatments we have. The bacteria runs rampant in Philippine nightlife. In my experience 80-90% of the women that will go home with you from Why Not or Prime have the disease (it has a certain smell to it IMO). Wrap it up, you don't want to get stuck with leaky plumbing for the rest of your life...or leaky eyes, mouths or throats. Back before antibiotics the disease frequently lead to death after it got into the blood. The only treatment that worked before antibiotics was mercury treatment...which came with obvious risks.
I would bet that Noel, the plumber from Citi Hardware, will not have a referral to fix that leaky pipe!
The world is running out of effective antibiotics for many diseases - and to think that the first antibiotic (penicillin) was produced only about 80 years ago (one person's lifetime!). We are responsible for this by being given antibiotics unnecessarily (often to satisfy patients that they are being treated, even if the illness is viral and therefore not treatable with antibiotics) and for use in animal husbandry. With an increased world population in the last 80 years and much greater travel (thus greater likelihood of diseases spreading worldwide) a future without antibiotics is bleak and perhaps Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' will come into play.
CRISPER might be the solution to this...if enough money gets put into research. However, with the current administration and its budget cuts and anti-science stance it doesn't look promising.
It's much more complicated than that IMHO. There are ethical and moral issues to many around this subject.
