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UK doctors advised gonorrhoea has turned drug resistant
BBC ^ | October 10, 2011 | Michelle Roberts

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.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: gonorrhoea

1 posted on 10/10/2011 1:10:06 PM PDT by decimon
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2 posted on 10/10/2011 1:11:31 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I guess I can throw Cefixime out of my 72 hour bug out bag now.


3 posted on 10/10/2011 1:20:07 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: decimon
and the other a jab. isn't that how they got it in the first place????
4 posted on 10/10/2011 1:55:46 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: decimon

Oh my. What are these 99%’s gonna do?


5 posted on 10/10/2011 1:56:05 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (“Get ready for an aberration of historic proportions" - Herman Cain)
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To: NoGrayZone

They’ll keep on ‘spreading the wealth’ since that seems to be their motto.


6 posted on 10/10/2011 10:26:27 PM PDT by Trillian
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