Super Gonorrhea Is About to Get the Trump Bump

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The president’s budget is not friendly to the programs trying to save antibiotics and fight superbugs.


The overuse of certain antibiotics has dulled their ability to fight infections, leading to such maladies as untreatable “super gonorrhea.” When world leaders gathered in Germany for the first-ever G20 Health Ministers meeting in May, they called for a “coordinated global response” to antibiotic resistance, currently “one of the biggest threats to global health.” But in stark contrast to the G20 leaders’ efforts, President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers in the United States are instead proposing to make deep cuts to, and in some cases eliminate, the federal programs focused on battling this resistance.

<snip> We could soon be in a world in which “modern medical advances such as surgery, transplants, and chemotherapy may no longer be viable due to the threat of infection.” <snip>


Full Article: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/07/super-gonorrhea-is-about-to-get-the-trump-bump/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[dhol82]

2. Yup, scary times ahead

Not just for STD's but for general infections also.
Big Pharma is not working on antibiotics. More money in meds for chronic illness.
Money (ROI) is the mover on research.

[Best_man23]

3. True Karma Would Be

Cheeto going over to Russia and contracting the Super G.