Q92: Victoria's Best Music Station » centers for disease control and prevention http://kqvt.com Victoria's Best Music Station Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 New 'Superbug' Strain of Gonorrhea Resists Antibiotics http://kqvt.com/new-superbug-strain-of-gonorrhea-resists-antibiotics/ http://kqvt.com/new-superbug-strain-of-gonorrhea-resists-antibiotics/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:59:57 +0000 Amory Gritta http://kqvt.com/?p=5543 Gonorrhea, a bacterial sexually transmitted infection, used to be easily treated with antibiotics. But now, a "superbug" strain of the STD has been found in Japan and scientists fear it could become a global public health threat.

"Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it," said Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, who discovered the strain with Japanese colleagues.

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For the third-consecutive year, births in the US have decreased.

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