Untreatable Form of Gonorrhea May Show Up in the U.S. http://b4in.org/iVmz

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Untreatable Form of Gonorrhea May Show Up in the U.S. http://b4in.org/iVmz

Here’s the good news about gonorrhea: It’s still a treatable sexually transmitted infection.

The bad news: It may not be for much longer.

Cases of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea have been found in other parts of the world, including the UK, where the country’s chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies warned about the rise of “super gonorrhea” in a recent letter to physicians and pharmacies.

The highly adaptable disease, which has been around for more than 2,000 years, once responded to a range of antibiotics.

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