Sentences with phrase «untreatable stds»

Untreatable STDs sound like the stuff of a nightmarish sexual education class (like the scene in Mean Girls: «if you touch each other, you will get chlamydia, and die»), but the CDC seems to consider their development fairly likely.

Francis is not the first to suggest this; Megan McArdle, for one, floated the idea last year when writing about the advent of seemingly untreatable STDs.

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Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV / AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, warned that «if resistance continues to increase and spread, current treatment will ultimately fail and 800,000 Americans a year will be at risk for untreatable gonorrhea.»