Sentences with phrase «untreatable gonorrhea»

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.»

The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are evolving faster than we can develop effective antibiotics against them, and a return to the era of untreatable gonorrhea could see a rise in the particularly nasty complications that arise from a long - term gonorrheal infection, such as pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis.

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Public health officials worry in particular about untreatable strains of antibiotic - resistant gonorrhea on the rise worldwide.

• PUBLIC HEALTH Gonorrhea has been developing defenses against drug treatment for decades, which has caused concern that it might become untreatable.

Gonorrhea, once a minor illness, is developing resistance to the last category of drugs that still works against it and could become untreatable

World health officials have raised alarms that the growing resistance of gonorrhea to antibiotics could cause it to become untreatable.