Antibiotic overuse due to coronavirus may trigger untreatable 'super gonorrhea' - watsupptoday.com
Antibiotic overuse due to coronavirus may trigger untreatable 'super gonorrhea'
Posted 28 Dec 2020 03:53 PM

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Antibiotic overuse due to coronavirus may trigger untreatable 'super gonorrhea'

28-12-2020

Excess use of antibiotics due to coronavirus has led to a rise in cases of 'super gonorrhea' which may even become untreatable. Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection and health experts fear overuse of the antibiotics may make the infection "untreatable". The World Health Organization (WHO) says super gonorrhea may become even more resistant to the recommended treatments like azithromycin. During the coronavirus pandemic, azithromycin has seen an increase in its usage. "Such a situation can fuel the emergence of resistance in gonorrhea including gonorrhea superbug (super gonorrhea) or gonorrhea with high-level resistance to current antibiotics recommended to treat it," a WHO spokesperson told a British media. New treatments for gonorrhea are urgently needed as people who are infected "will infect others and accelerate microbial resistance", said Kevin Cox, executive chairman of the Britain-based startup Biotaspheric Limited. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said cases of gonorrhea have increased by 63 per cent since 2014. It warned this could "facilitate the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)."

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