July 7th, 2017
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Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is on the rise: World Health Organization
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Antibiotic resistance is causing gonorrhea to become harder and sometimes impossible to treat, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Gonorrhea, which is a sexually transmitted disease that can cause infertility if untreated, effects an estimated 78 million people each year, according to WHO. Data from 77 countries, shows the disease has developed resistance to some antibiotics, and an increasing number of countries are finding that the infection can become untreatable by all known antibiotics, according to WHO.
Those numbers might be even higher since lower-income countries where gonorrhea is more common might not have the systems to report untreatable infections, Teodora Wi, medical officer, human reproduction, at WHO, said in a statement.
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them," Wi said in a statement... More
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Antibiotic resistance is causing gonorrhea to become harder and sometimes
impossible to treat, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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