Gonorrhea Superbug: First Antibiotic-Resistant STD Strain H041 Discovered

Gonorreah is taking its place among the elite group serious sex-related f'ups you can make along side HIV, Herpes and Babies. Scientists have found the first "superbug" strain of gonorrhea in Japan. This announcement is just three days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that U.S. gonorrhea samples had being showing new signs of drug resistance as well.

The H041 strain is resistant to the class of antibiotics, called cephalosporins, commonly used to treat the STD. Cephalosporins are the only class of Antibiotics the CDC currently recommends for effective treatment of Gonorrhea. This development can potentially make the most commonly transmitted infection into a global public health threat because of the ubiquitous nature of the bacteria.

This announcement comes as no surprise to medical authorities as Gonorrhea has been becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics for several years now, and the percentage of cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea cases in the U.S. is on the rise, according to the CDC's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Gonorrhea bacteria under the Microscope

Sources: Healthandtime.com, Hpost

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