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STD Awareness: Fully Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Is on the Horizon
We’ve been anticipating its arrival for years now, but earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally made an announcement: Cases of gonorrhea resistant to the last...
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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea’s Latest Dubious Honor
Wanted: Scientists who can develop novel antibiotics A few years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a “greatest hits” list of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. More...
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STD Awareness: Is Gonorrhea Becoming “Impossible” to Treat?
Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Health authorities have been worried about it for a long time now, and we’ve been following it on our blog since 2012. The boogeyman?...
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STD Awareness: “Sounding the Alarm” Over Another Antibiotic-Resistant STD
In 2012, the New England Journal of Medicine ominously stated, “It’s time to sound the alarm.” What followed was a description of the evolution of gonorrhea to all antibiotics we have used to treat it,...
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STD Awareness: UK Announces “Worst-Ever” Case of Gonorrhea
In late March, the BBC reported a story that was widely repeated in headlines across the world: “Man has ‘world’s worst’ super-gonorrhoea.” The article told the story of a British man whose symptoms...
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STD Awareness: Is Mouthwash a Match for Gonorrhea’s Superpowers?
Since the 1930s, we’ve enjoyed around eight decades of easily cured gonorrhea — at least in places with easy access to antibiotics — but experts fear those days are numbered. In the past year or so,...
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STD Awareness: The Long Road to a Chlamydia Vaccine
Earlier this year, television personality John Oliver was the butt of an elaborate prank orchestrated by actor Russell Crowe. It started with an auctioned jock strap, and ended with Crowe funding the...
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STD Awareness: Trichomoniasis, the Pear-Shaped, Blood-Sucking, Silent Scourge
What’s shaped like a pear, hangs with a posse of bacteria, and is a silent scourge upon millions of urogenital tracts? I hope you guessed Trichomonas vaginalis, the single-celled parasite that causes...
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