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Massachusetts: New Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Strain reported

Gonorrhea can spread without symptoms. In others, it can cause bleeding, pain and discharge. Serious complications can lead to infertility. It’s common, trailing only behind chlamydia in number of cases, two cases of a new strain of gonorrhea reported in Massachusetts were at least partly resistant to several antibiotics. The patients in the two Massachusetts cases did improve after getting injections of the primary drug currently recommended for the sexually transmitted disease, ceftriaxone. What is your take on new drug resistant diseases ?

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