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Take Cover: Unstoppable STDs are Coming Your Way

Gonorrhea is becoming resistant to the only drugs that can treat it.

Take Cover: Unstoppable STDs are Coming Your Way

[DIGEST: BBC, CNN (1, 2), CNBC, CDC, NBC]

There are two kinds of STDs: those that can be successfully treated and those that cannot. Now gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease that has typically been cured through a course of antibiotics, is moving into the untreatable camp. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, is developing resistance to the only antibiotics that can treat it.

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