Introduced just last week is a new form of gonorrhea, resistant to most antibiotics, there is good reason to learn more about our friend, neisseria gonorrhoeae.
As generations of humans continue to live and die, they are no longer evolving. Instead we choose to let scientists handle such problems for us. Scientists, in turn, have realized that curing disease is much less profitable than managing disease, thus recreating the human race as these long-living, disease-spreading breeding grounds for a multitude of creatures, among them bacteria. Bacteria, with shorter life-spans and no scientists to "manage" their problems, have done that which humans have forgotten to do - evolve.
Already there are more gonorrhea bacteria on Earth than humans, and with their latest evolution their numerical dominance will continue to grow. So by learning more about gonorrhea, we are really just learning more about our future bacterial overlords.
As everything in the world seems to have its own week (Happy Bright Garantisadong Pambata Week, by the way), it is time that something so popular and common have it's time in the spotlight as well. So, as no one else has done so, let me be the first to proclaim:
HAPPY GONORRHEA AWARENESS WEEK!
For the rest of the week, expect to learn much more. Promised are gonorrhea anecdotes, knowledge, gift ideas, songs and so much more! Lucky reader!
(Just for the record, I'm not serving as a host to "Big G", so don't even start!)
