Gonorrhea, one of the most commonly treated STDs, is becoming more and more resistant to the only drug left to treat it. US scientists are warning that it could be the next super-bug.
Although no cases have been reported in the States, scientists at the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that they have detected growing signs of resistance to the class of antibiotics called cephalosporins.
Worryingly, there have been cases that showed up elsewhere in the world where treatment failed, among them Norway and Japan.
A recent report by a team of Japanese and Norwegian scientists, say that the new strain may be:
a true superbug that initiates a future era of untreatable gonorrhea.
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[Source : The New York Times]
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