Untreatable-Gonorrhea Hits Spotlight While WHO Issues New Treatment Guidelines

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By Julie Fidler

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidelines for treating gonorrhea that reflect the looming threat posed by antibiotic resistance.

Under the U.N. health agency’s new directives, gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), should no longer be treated with a class of antibiotics called quinolones, because quinolone-resistant strains of the disease have emerged all over the world. [1]

Instead, the WHO recommends treating gonorrhea with another class of antibiotics, cephalosporins. The new guidelines replace precepts which haven’t been changed since 2003.

Facts About Gonorrhea

About 78 million people are infected with gonorrhea each year, according to the WHO.

In the United States, there are …read more

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