MSNBC: Incurable gonorrhea may be next superbug, by Brian Alexander:
Some strains of STD showing signs of becoming resistant to all treatments
An alarming new superbug may be on its way — anincurable form of gonorrhea. The disease, once easily killed with ashot of penicillin, is increasingly becoming drug-resistant. Soon, theworld may face a version that can’t be killed by any known antibiotic,warned Catherine Ison, the director of the sexually transmittedbacteria reference library with the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency.
In recent years, as the disease has evolved, medications once provento kill the bacteria have become less effective except one, a class ofantibiotics called cephalosporins. Now some strains of gonorrhea areshowing signs of being resistant to even that, Ison told those at ascientific meeting last week in Edinburgh, Scotland. . . .