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Best stock up on condoms I suppose...

Sigh...

And I just turned 16 in June...

 Revenent Reiko wrote:

They are now as a direct result of this issue. The way you made your first statement made it sound like they have been doing so for ages, this isnt the case. If i read it the wrong way, ill hold my hands up, was just looking to enlighten if not....but not in exaclty the most polite way, sorry :*(

Actually research has been ongoing for decades. The first cases of drug resistance occured about a year after the introduction of penicillin (in the same species that would eventually become MRSA) and evolution has ensured that an arms race has been on ever since. Antibiotics don't just work against a single bacterial species, they usually work against a wide range so there isn't any specific research to develop an antibiotic that will work speciffically against N.gonorrhoae but there is work on going to develop new antimicrobials. The cephalosporins mentioned in the OP's article for example are penicillins great grandchildren (if you like) which work against the majority of all pathogenic bacteria. The problem is that we became complacent and moved our attention away which has allowed evolution to gain ground. There are only a handful of antimicrobial 'families' all of which have bacteria that have developed some degree of resistance to them which makes developing new antimicrobials expensive and difficult.

We are quite a long way from a scenario where antibiotics don't work any more though and there is a lot of work ongoing in this field.

I'm not sure this is going to change much in the way of behavior. Nearly all negative consequences of sex are linked to lower socio-economic status: STDs, teen pregnancy, abortions, whatever.

AIDS didn't just go away in the mind 1990s, instead most people became aware of the dangers, and took precautions. These days, unless you're doing IV drugs or having a lot of unprotected anal sex with lots of people, or sleeping with somebody that is, you will almost never get infected.

I'm not saying "it's ok because only poor people will suffer from it," but the same people that rack up unwanted pregnancies and other STIs will be the ones getting super-clap.