Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (the bacterium that causes gonorrhea) has become one of the most urgent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say that overuse of antibiotics has led to antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. (Getty Images) That's concerning given that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gonorrhea is on the rise in the U.S. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty / Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Life) Cases of gonorrhea are ...

The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency shows that diagnoses of gonorrhea and syphilis have surged in the last year. Shockingly, gonorrhea rates are the highest they have been since records ...

You never want to see the words "gonorrhea" and "super" in the same sentence, such as "super, you have gonorrhea" or "gonorrhea is super." However, "super" gonorrhea is becoming an increasing reality ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on Thursday two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea—one which is resistant to five classes of antibiotic treatment, and which health officials ...

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Alongside growing evidence of the domestic spread of such resistant strains in Europe over the past two years, this poses a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Newly evolved strains of drug-resistant gonorrhea are making the ...

Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The super-strain found in the Austrian man was resistant to both ...

As gonorrhea rates continue to climb in Canada, health officials are warning the infection is also becoming more resistant to antibiotics, which could lead to the possibility of the sexually ...