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Drug-resistant sex diseases now ‘endemic’

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Sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] brought under control last century could be coming back as new strains find ways to cheat antibiotic treatments, a report warns.

Research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today charts the changing face of drug-resistant disease during the past two decades, and found resistance to a raft of infections has become “endemic”.

In Australia and Sweden, strains of gonorrhoea have become untreatable – a problem labelled an “urgent threat” by the United States Centres for Disease Control.

No-one has a true picture of infection rates in New Zealand because sexually transmitted infections, except Aids, are non-notifiable and monitoring is done voluntarily, mainly when people go to the doctor with symptoms.

For full story by Matt Stewart see:

The Dominion Post News. Friday September 26. 2014, P. A4.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/10546207/Drug-resistant-sex-diseases-now-endemic


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