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STD Awareness: Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea
Nestled in the throat of a Japanese woman was a collection of clones that scientists abducted from their temporary habitat and christened H041 — a humdrum moniker for a strain of bacteria that would...
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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: 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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Some Good News About Three Sexually Transmitted Viruses
Scientists are hard at work finding ways to improve your health! With so much bad news emblazoned across headlines in every newspaper you look at, the world might seem like a gloomy place. So let’s...
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Learning About Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects
The week of May 14 is Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects Awareness Week. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence: About 20% of pregnant women smoke cigarettes, 12% drink...
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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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