Bummer. Another Drug Shortage. This time Bicillin L-A, the top drug used to inject sufferers of syphilis who come into the ER, is in shortage. It’s particularly important for pregnant ladies infected with the little corkscrew Treponema pallidum, as babies being born with the bug is the absolute WORST. Yes, it seems amazing that benzathine penicillin still works on syphilis after all of these years, and wouldn’t it figure that somehow Pfizer can’t make enough to meet demand. A ‘manufacturing delay’ is cited.
How about that Zika virus?? Now it is claimed that it can be a sexually transmitted disease, passed by just about any kind of sex.
Listen up. HIV isn’t impressive enough to chill people down just a little bit with with their risk taking behavior. Do you think they’ll care about Zika virus? Naaaaah. No one is going to give up SEX for that, however there is one bicyclist Teejay Van Garderen, who has decided to stay home from the summer Olympics in Brazil this summer because his wife is pregnant, and he doesn’t want to risk transmission.
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