The Disease DailyMay 18, 2013
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Unusually High Rates of Gonorrhea Hit Maine

By Lauren Edmundson
The CDC in Maine has recorded 370 cases of gonorrhea in the first ten months of this year, an unusually high number. Last year, the CDC recorded one hundred fewer cases for the whole year, and the...

Human vs. Microbe: Looming Resistance in Gonorrhea

By Anna Tomasulo
According to The Bay Area Reporter and to preliminary data from the Department of Public Health’s STD Prevention and Control Section, cases of gonorrhea in San Francisco jumped from 1,943 in 2010...

Potential for untreatable gonorrhea?

By Anna Tomasulo
This Monday, 10 Oct. 2011, doctors from the United Kingdom reported that gonorrhea has developed an increased resistance to the antibiotic currently used to treat it. The UK Health Protection...

Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea Detected

By healthmap
A new gonorrhea “superbug” has hit Japan. This new strain, named H041, is reportedly resistant to all existing antibiotics.  Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, is not fatal but is is...