Health Report - Gonorrhea Getting Harder to Treat

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VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Each an estimated 106 million people get infected with gonorrhea. sexually transmitted disease is getting harder and harder to . The World Health Organization says gonorrhea is increasingly resistant antibiotics. The WHO warns that there are few treatment available. The world, it says, is running out of to cure the disease. Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan is a scientist the Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases at the WHO. says infected men and women of reproductive age could infertile if gonorrhea becomes untreatable. This bacterial disease can threaten the health of infected pregnant women and their children. Gonorrhea is one of four major sexually transmitted that can be cured. The other three are chlamydial , syphilis and chancroid. But the organism that causes gonorrhea developed resistance to almost every class of antibiotic. Resistance caused by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics and the use of poor quality antibiotics. It also results natural genetic changes, or mutations, within the organisms that diseases. The WHO says it does not have enough to know the extent of gonorrhea resistance worldwide. But says cases of resistance to treatment have been reported Australia, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Britain. The WHO calling for smarter use of antibiotics and more research new ways to treat the infections. Dr. Lusti-Marasimhan says is currently no research into new drug treatments for . For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman. (Adapted from radio program broadcast 12Mar2013)

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