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‘Super Gonorrhea’ Is Here, But Don’t Worry—Yet

‘KNOW THE SIGNS’

The usual antibiotics don’t cure it, and you can have it with no symptoms. Here’s hoping doctors are right that antibiotic resistance will emerge.

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It appears the world has its first case of “super gonorrhea” that’s resistant to the common antibiotics-drug combination used to fight the infection, Public Health England reported earlier this week.

The patient, who’d had a steady partner but had contracted the infection from a “sexual encounter with a woman in south-east...

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