Gonorrhea, once an easily treated and relatively mild STI, is becoming a superbug, with major public health implications.
of tracking antibiotic-resistant germs in general, Hyun notes. And that leaves open the possibility that we won’t see a rise in these pan-resistant infections, as they’re called, until it’s well underway.by scientists at the World Health Organization found growing rates of azithromycin and ceftriaxone resistance in 73 countries from 2017 to 2018. Tthat half of all gonorrhea infections in 2020 were resistant to at least one antibiotic, usually azithromycin.
the country’s first known case of a gonorrhea strain carrying a well-known and emerging mutation to the drug.Gonorrhea often goes unnoticed; data suggests that about half of cases never experience symptoms at all. But it can occasionally be a, complete with puke-colored discharge from your genitals, painful or burning urination, and added bleeding between periods for women. It can also reach the throat or anus via oral and anal sex.
In men and especially women, it can cause inflammation and permanent damage to the reproductive system, which can then lead to infertility. More rarely, it can reach the bloodstream and spread to other places in the body, causing serious or fatal complications like arthritis, endocarditis, and meningitis. If it’s passed from mother to child during delivery, the infection can reach a newborn’s eyes and cause blindness, or it can outright kill them.
Every one of these treatment failures would allow infections to persist and spread further to others. In a 2018, Teodora Wi, a WHO expert specializing in sexually transmitted infections, stated that up to 300,000 more people worldwide could die annually if resistant gonorrhea became widespread.
An effective vaccine for gonorrhea would provide longer-lasting protection against the disease, while giving bacteria less opportunity to outsmart the latest drug. Since people don’t
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