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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea’s Ever-Growing Resistance to Antibiotics
Gonococci, the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Ever since the advent of effective antibacterial therapies less than a century ago, humans with access to these drugs can easily cure gonorrhea. Most of us...
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STD Awareness: Fully Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Is on the Horizon
We’ve been anticipating its arrival for years now, but earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally made an announcement: Cases of gonorrhea resistant to the last...
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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea’s Latest Dubious Honor
Wanted: Scientists who can develop novel antibiotics A few years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a “greatest hits” list of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. More...
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STD Awareness: Is Gonorrhea Becoming “Impossible” to Treat?
Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Health authorities have been worried about it for a long time now, and we’ve been following it on our blog since 2012. The boogeyman?...
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STD Awareness: UK Announces “Worst-Ever” Case of Gonorrhea
In late March, the BBC reported a story that was widely repeated in headlines across the world: “Man has ‘world’s worst’ super-gonorrhoea.” The article told the story of a British man whose symptoms...
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STD Awareness: Is Mouthwash a Match for Gonorrhea’s Superpowers?
Since the 1930s, we’ve enjoyed around eight decades of easily cured gonorrhea — at least in places with easy access to antibiotics — but experts fear those days are numbered. In the past year or so,...
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STD Awareness: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have been with us since the dawn of time — or at least since the dawn of sex. And, as we continue to hone our approach to preventing and treating them, STDs will...
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STD Awareness: Can I Get Gonorrhea from Kissing?
Not all types of kissing feature the exchange of saliva. Some pretty depressing news hit a couple of months ago, when headlines proclaimed kissing could allow gonorrhea to jump from one person to...
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