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What’s worse than being told that you have gonorrhea? How about being told that you are the first case in the U.S. of gonorrhea that has either no response or reduced response to five different classes of antibiotics? Yep, that’s what recently happened to not one but two people in Massachusetts, according to a January 19 announcement from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). They were infected with a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria that’s even harder to treat, which is kind of like getting kicked in the groin and then falling forwards groin-first on to a bowling ball....

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America is investigating its first two cases of a 'concerning' strain of super-gonorrhea that shows signs of resistance to a range of antibiotics. Officials say that both patients — who have not been named — are from Massachusetts and likely caught the disease in the state. There is no connection between the pair, which suggests the sexually transmitted infection (STI) is spreading.