WHO: Antibiotic resistance causing untreatable STDs
by: Samantha Debbie
NaturalNews.com
Monday, September 05, 2016
The World Health Organization (WHO) had to release new guidelines on Wednesday for treating one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the world, due to the rising threat of antibiotic resistance, a phenomenon resulting in the development of superbugs resistant to modern day antibiotics.
The medical community is running out of ways to treat gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease caused by an infection of the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, says the WHO.
The disease is known to infect warm, moist parts of the human body including the throat, eyes, vagina, urethra and anus. It can also infect the female reproductive tract, including the fallopian tubes and cervix.
As many as 820,000 new cases of gonorrhea arise in the U.S. each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and approximately 78 million cases are diagnosed worldwide. The disease is most often contracted during sex among those between 15 and 24 years of age, data shows.
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