First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America

Completely incurable gonorrhea may be at hand

By Jason Koebler

January 8, 2013
Gonorrhea infects close to 700,000 Americans each year.



The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic has been detected in at least nine North American patients, meaning the era of "incurable" gonorrhea could be close.

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