Just a few days ago the news of sex superbug threatening the U.S. started alarming people around the globe. However, the NBC News reported on May 6, 2013 that this sex superbug isn’t present in the US .
According to reports, atleast two cases of a resistant strain of gonorrhoea have hit Hawaii.
The public health officials have been restating their concerns about the rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
Quoting Dr. Kimberly Workowski, a professor of infectious disease at Emory University in Atlanta, the NBC News mentioned, “The sky is not falling – yet.”
The media had been buzzing lately about a rare strain of gonorrhea called HO41 found in Hawaii.
This would have really made nations land into trouble as the HO41 is drug-resistant. It even doesn’t respond to the ceftriaxone, an injectable antibiotic that is
That would have raised alarms nationwide, signaling the first domestic sign of a strain that's been found to be resistant to ceftriaxone, an injectable antibiotic known to be the pis aller for the sexually transmitted infection.
However, the Hawaii cases that were initially detected in May 2011 belonged to a different strain, H11S8.
This is resistive to a different antibiotic called azithromycin, state health officials reported.
The HO41 strain was first detected in 2009 in a Japanese sex worker. After that it hasn’t been detected anywhere else.
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