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Mycoplasma Genitalium: New Super STD That Renders Women Infertile by GworoChewinMaga: 2:27pm On Jul 11, 2018 |
Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is a type of bacteria that can cause an STD. You get it by having sex with someone who has it. Even if you don’t go “all the way” with vaginal sex, you can get MG through sexual touching or rubbing. Scientists have known about this bacteria since the 1980s, but a recent study showed that more than 1 in 100 adults might have it. Symptoms MG doesn’t always cause symptoms, so it’s possible to have it and not know it. In men, the symptoms are: Watery discharge from your penis Burning, stinging, or pain when you pee The symptoms for women are: Discharge from your vagina Pain during sex Bleeding after sex Bleeding between periods Pain in your pelvic area below your belly button |
Re: Mycoplasma Genitalium: New Super STD That Renders Women Infertile by GworoChewinMaga: 2:28pm On Jul 11, 2018 |
Getting a Diagnosis for MG Unlike other STDs, there is no test for MG that the FDA has approved. But if you or your doctor think you might have it, you can get a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT). For this test, you might have to give a sample of your pee. Your doctor might also use a swab to take a sample from your vagina, cervix, or urethra, the tube that carries your pee out of your body. |
Re: Mycoplasma Genitalium: New Super STD That Renders Women Infertile by GworoChewinMaga: 2:29pm On Jul 11, 2018 |
Other Health Problems MG Can Cause MG can cause a number of complications: A problem that makes your urethra irritated, swollen, and itchy, called urethritis. It can happen to men and women. An infection of a woman’s reproductive organs, called pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can make it hard to get pregnant. An inflamed cervix, called cervicitis Scientists aren’t sure if an MG infection can make it hard for men to get a woman pregnant. |
Re: Mycoplasma Genitalium: New Super STD That Renders Women Infertile by GworoChewinMaga: 2:29pm On Jul 11, 2018 |
Treatment MG can be a tricky problem to treat. Common antibiotics like penicillin kill bacteria by damaging a germ’s cell walls. But MG bacteria don’t have cell walls, so these drugs don’t work very well. Your doctor might try azithromycin (Zithromax, Zmax) first. If that doesn’t work, your doctor might give you moxifloxacin (Avelox). |
Re: Mycoplasma Genitalium: New Super STD That Renders Women Infertile by GworoChewinMaga: 5:01pm On Jul 11, 2018 |
Currently some crazy scientists are trying to create a more virulent form of the disease organism... Mycoplasma laboratorium is a designed, partially synthetic species of bacterium derived from the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium. This effort in synthetic biology is being undertaken at the J. Craig Venter Institute by a team of approximately 20 scientists headed by Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith and including DNA researcher Craig Venter and microbiologist Clyde A. Hutchison III. Mycoplasma genitalium was chosen as it was the species with the smallest number of genes known at that time. Tell me why this is a good thing? |
Re: Mycoplasma Genitalium: New Super STD That Renders Women Infertile by doeeyed: 12:26am On Jul 12, 2018 |
Is this a bid to create a vaccine of sorts Or a biofuel?! . |
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