"Along with dramatic increases in syphilis cases (up 76 percent from 2013)
and chlamydia cases (a 45 percent increase among girls and women 15 to 24 years old),
CDC officials said they are concerned about a spike in gonorrhea.
The number of cases went up 67 percent overall but nearly doubled in men, from 169,130 cases in 2013 to 322,169 cases in 2017."
"New CDC findings show the share of gonorrhea samples that are resistant to azithromycin
– prescribed for the disease to stave off its resistance to the separate antibiotic ceftriaxone
– has quadrupled, from 1 percent in 2013 to more than 4 percent in 2017."
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