April 26, 2007 - 1:32am
By Megan Potter
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Recently the Center for Disease Control and Prevention discovered a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea, previously considered a curable STD that was relatively easy to treat.
The new strain is immune to the fluoroquinolone antibiotic in the form of a pill that doctors have readily prescribed for over a decade. From now on, the only guaranteed treatment for all cases is a shot of the cephalosporin antibiotic.