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Mar 31, 2018

It’s Official: A British Man Has Contracted The First Case of Untreatable ‘Super-Gonorrhea’

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

It’s not a great feeling to know that you scared your doctors. Unfortunately for a man in the UK, he recently did so: he displayed a case of gonorrhea that so dramatically resisted treatment that it chilled his physicians.

That’s partially because gonorrhea isn’t the best thing to leave untreated. But another reason: this case is a harbinger of a looming crisis.

Gonorrhea is an infection caused by a bacteria. Usually antibiotics can kill it.

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