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The Clap Came Back: Multidrug-Resistant Gonorrhea

July 11, 2011 By Maryn Leave a Comment

Among the many unintended consequences of the 30-year AIDS epidemic has been a profound change in status for other sexually transmitted diseases. It feels slightly bizarre, for anyone who came of age after HIV arrived, to realize that syphilis and gonorrhea and their ilk were once as profoundly dreaded as AIDS is now, so important that they were considered major threats to military campaigns and were the first treatment targets for the earliest antimicrobial drugs.

Judging by data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control, it might be time to take them seriously once again.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: antibiotics, CDC, gonorrhea, Japan, Norway, Resistance, Science Blogs

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