The risk of gonorrhea into drug-resistant disease

Many experts warn that gonorrhea in the UK is booming into epidemics, which can spread globally and are difficult to treat due to the onset of resistance.

Illustration of gonorrhea bacteria.(Photo: CBS News).

Starting last year in the city of Leeds (UK), gonorrhea did not stop but attacked in other cities including London, affecting both heterosexual and gay. According to Fox News, many health experts warn that this sexually transmitted disease is easily spread globally. In particular, it will be increasingly dangerous because the treatment drug is no longer effective.

Caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae , gonorrhea spreads due to unsafe sex and can be passed from mother to child in uterus. Gonorrhea is usually treated with azithromycin in combination with ceftriaxone . However, it began to resist azithromycin, which made the medical community concerned that ceftriaxone would soon become ineffective.

The UK Ministry of Health recognizes that gonorrhea spread is "a clear sign of the danger when antibiotics are resistant" and if the world does not act, this will become "a threat to push people to cancer." ".