The gonorrhea and teen pregnancy rates have remained more constant, rising from 139 to 244 cases and 449 to 560 cases respectively. About 22 percent of gonorrhea cases were in young adults, according to county Health Department numbers.
The clap” has grown into thunderous applause as the Little-STD-That-Could has become an antibiotic-resistant superbug that's very difficult to kill.
The CDC is warning that susceptibility to the last available antibiotic recommended for the treatment of gonorrhea is emerging. According to Web MD, cephalosporin is the only remaining class of antibiotics left to treat STDs like gonorrhea so it's
By Peter Finocchiaro The world's most common sexually transmitted infection has just gotten a little bit scarier, as an international group of scientists announced yesterday that they have identified a new, drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea in Japan.
A new strain of the gonorrhea bacteria can resist all available antibiotics, doctors say. Gonorrhea is one of the world's most common sexually transmitted diseases, so this could portend a major threat to public health.
