The rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
SEX AND THE SUPERBUG
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Now, however, public-health experts view the Kyoto case as something far more alarming: the emergence of a strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to the last drug available against it, and the harbinger of a sexually transmitted global epidemic. “The microbe appears to be emerging as a superbug,” Dr. Magnus Unemo, the head of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Gonorrhea and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections, in Sweden, told me recently. “This is what we have feared for many years.
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