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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/07/12/137797153/super-resistant-gonorrhea-strain-found-in-japan?ps=sh_sthdl%3Fsc%3Dfb&cc=fp

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The new, super-resistant strain is called H041, and so far, only a handful of cases are known in Japan. But don’t count on it staying that way. Experience has shown that once a resistant strain of gonorrhea appears, it steadily displaces those that can be killed with antibiotics.

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But the discovery of H041 foretells a different ballgame. This super-gonorrhea strain doesn’t merely require higher doses of the most powerful antibiotic available. It might be entirely untreatable.

So the new bug calls for “enhanced disease control activities” to contain it, or at least delay its spread, the Swedish and Japanese teams says, and “ultimately, new drugs are essential… for efficacious gonorrhea treatment.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antarctica-1961-a-soviet-surgeon-has-to-remove-his-own-appendix/72445/

Cutoff from the world in Antarctica in 1961, this poor Dr. started coming down with appendicitis and knew the only way to survive was to operate on himself. One of his journal entries:

I worked without gloves. It was hard to see. The mirror helps, but it also hinders — after all, it’s showing things backwards. I work mainly by touch. The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time — I try to work surely. Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up. Suddenly it flashed through my mind: there are more injuries here and I didn’t notice them … I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every 4-5 minutes I rest for 20-25 seconds. Finally, here it is, the cursed appendage! With horror I notice the dark stain at its base. That means just a day longer and it would have burst and …

At the worst moment of removing the appendix I flagged: my heart seized up and noticeably slowed; my hands felt like rubber. Well, I thought, it’s going to end badly. And all that was left was removing the appendix … And then I realised that, basically, I was already saved.

Survived and died at the age of 76 in St. Petersburg in 2000.

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