The world health organization said that gonorrhea is becoming increasingly difficult, and in some cases impossible to treat with antibiotics.
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly clever. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat infections, bacteria evolyutsioniruet to confront them," said a specialist in human reproduction at who Theodore VI.
According to who, Japan, France and Spain discovered three bacteria that you can't kill the best medicine. "We need to be more vigilant," said VI reporters at a briefing over the phone. According to who, each year, about 78 million people worldwide are infected with gonorrhea. In the United States, the Centers for control and prevention of diseases are fixed annually 820 thousand new infections.
Data from 77 countries, collected by the who shows that there is widespread resistance to older, cheaper antibiotics, and in some countries the infection was "incurable for all known antibiotics," reads the press release of the international health organization.
The Director of the who antimicrobial resistance Marc Sprenger, said there is an urgent need for medication and tests for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea. Gonorrhea has developed resistance to almost every class of antibiotics used for its treatment such as penicillin, tetracycline and fluoroquinolones, according to the CDC.
A sexually transmitted infection, is becoming resistant to the usual recommended treatment worldwide, and the creation of new antibiotics "is not a very attractive for commercial pharmaceutical companies," said who.
Symptoms of gonorrhea include a burning sensation when urinating and an unusual discharge from the penis or vagina. If untreated, the infection can cause serious health problems, including abdominal pain and inflammation of the pelvis, which can lead to ectopic pregnancy and infertility.
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