I am going to pay better attention to BN's writings to see who has the clap!
Antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhea are on the rise, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
An estimated 78 million people contract gonorrhea each year, says WHO of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) that was once easily treated.
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly smart," said WHO spokesperson Dr. Teodora Wi in a press release. "Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them."
WHO researchers, whose findings were published in two separate studies this month, discovered that first-line antibiotics were ineffective in 50 of the 77 countries they analyzed. Resistance is also increasing in second and third-line treatments, the researchers found. Three strains of the STI were found to be resistance to all antibiotics.