Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Worldwide

A potentially dangerous sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

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  • New Gonorrhea HO41 Superbug Could Be ‘Worse Than AIDS,’ Doctors ... - International Business Times
    A new drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea spreading through North America, Europe and Asia could ... that, “An era of untreatable gonorrhea may be
    05/7/2013 - 7:55 am | View Link
  • STDs Cause Serious Illness, Even Death - NNMC Journal
    STDs include chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B ... becoming resistant and eventually untreatable. ... every time to prevent getting or spreading ...
    04/5/2013 - 11:41 am | View Link
  • Mutating Gonorrhea and 'Superbugs' Coming Soon to a Town Near You? - PBS
    ... form of gonorrhea reached North America earlier this year and a "virtually untreatable" type ... these types of resistant bacteria spreading ...
    04/1/2013 - 1:35 pm | View Link
  • Antibiotics crisis prompts rethink on risks, rewards - QualityHealth.com
    Others are spreading. Cases of totally drug resistant tuberculosis have appeared in recent years, as have untreatable strains of gonorrhea, and...
    03/19/2013 - 8:24 am | View Link
  • Analysis: Antibiotics crisis prompts rethink on risks, rewards - Reuters
    Others are spreading. Cases of totally drug resistant tuberculosis have appeared in recent years, as have untreatable strains of gonorrhea, and...
    03/18/2013 - 12:50 pm | View Link
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  • Antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat"
    LONDON (Reuters) - Antibiotic resistance poses a catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean patients having minor surgery risk dying from infections ...
    03/10/2013 - 11:03 pm | View Link
  • Antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat"
    LONDON (Reuters) - Antibiotic resistance poses a catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean patients having minor surgery risk dying from infections ...
    03/10/2013 - 7:57 pm | View Link
  • The 'nightmare' superbug resistant to our strongest antibiotics ...
    A cousin of E. coli has somehow gained the ability to fend off our most powerful drugs, and now the CDC is stepping in A stubborn bacteria is spreading in ...
    03/6/2013 - 4:53 pm | View Link
  • Emerging Superbug Requires Urgent Action, CDC Says
    An emerging superbug is infecting an increasing number of people in the United States, and health officials are calling for urgent action to stop its spread.
    03/5/2013 - 5:23 pm | View Link
  • "Nightmare bacteria," shrugging off antibiotics, on rise in U.S ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Nightmare bacteria" that have become increasingly resistant to even the strongest antibiotics infected patients in 3.9 percent of all ...
    03/5/2013 - 2:45 pm | View Link
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  • CDC moves to keep new resistant gonorrhea at bay – USATODAY.com
    Federal health officials took steps Thursday to head off the emergence of a new gonorrhea "superbug" that's resistant to standard antibiotics.
    05/24/2013 - 3:47 am | View Website
  • Can you get gonorrhea of the eye?
    Dr. Brian Parker, sex expert for www.foreverpleasure.com explains how you can get gonorrhea of the eye. For similar questions (and thousands more) check ...
    05/23/2013 - 6:12 am | View Website
  • Gonorrhea
    Gonorrhea is a purulent infection of the mucous membrane surfaces caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae. N gonorrhoeae is spread by sexual contact or through ...
    05/23/2013 - 12:42 am | View Website
  • Worries Grow About Treating Gonorrhea
    This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Each year an estimated one ...
    05/22/2013 - 9:05 am | View Website
  • STD Facts
    Gonorrhea Fact Sheet from CDC. What is gonorrhea? How common is gonorrhea? How do people get gonorrhea? And more...
    05/21/2013 - 6:17 pm | View Website
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