The US Department of Health is investigating two cases of infection with a new strain of “super gonorrhea” that is immune to a wide range of antibiotics. informs Daily Mail. The publication clarifies that the virus may be weakly susceptible to all antibiotics in general.
Both patients were found in Massachusetts, but they are not related to each other. AT research It is noted that at the same time, one of the patients did not travel abroad, which means that he was infected inside the country. Now epidemiologists are determining the list of their contacts in order to track the possible spread of the virus.
Previously, a strain of “supergonorrhea” was found in the UK and Austria, but in America it was met for the first time.
Usually, gonorrhea is treated with the antibiotic Ceftriaxone, but the new strain was almost immune to it. Health officials say the virus has shown a “reduced response” to a large number of antibiotics. Nevertheless, both patients were still cured with ceftriaxone.
American doctors began investigating these cases of infection.
