Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea on the rise; need for new drugs
7 July 2017 | GENEVA – Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea—a common sexually-transmitted infection—much harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat. “The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them,” said Dr …