Posted on 10/10/2011 1:09:59 PM PDT by decimon
UK doctors are being told the antibiotic normally used to treat gonorrhoea is no longer effective because the sexually transmitted disease is now largely resistant to it.
The Health Protection Agency says we may be heading to a point when the disease is incurable unless new treatments can be found.
For now, doctors must stop using the usual treatment cefixime and instead use two more powerful antibiotics.
One is a pill and the other a jab.
The HPA say the change is necessary because of increasing resistance.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
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I guess I can throw Cefixime out of my 72 hour bug out bag now.
Oh my. What are these 99%’s gonna do?
They’ll keep on ‘spreading the wealth’ since that seems to be their motto.
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