Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection that is estimated to infected around 78 million people globally every year. Gonorrhea has no symptoms of its own but causes the infected person to have pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, infertility and in some rare cases HIV.
In regard to the bug, a specialist at World Health Organization said that Gonorrhea is a smart bug and evolves quickly to any new antibiotics that it is exposed to and develops resistance to the antibiotics. In many countries, last-resort drugs, like the ESCs, are the only line of defense against Gonorrhea.
Last year, a cluster of infections in Hawaii did not succumb as easily to the antibiotics as infections have in the past.
Gonorrhoea can be prevented through safe behaviour, World Health Organization stressed.
The development of new antibiotics is not very attractive for commercial pharmaceutical companies.
The treatments were said to be taken only for short periods of time, unlike medicines for chronic diseases, and they become less effective as resistance develops, meaning that the supply of new drugs constantly needs to be replenished, according to the agency.
Treatment involves an antibiotic injection and a single dose of antibiotic tablets.
"To address the pressing need for new treatments for gonorrhoea, we urgently need to seize the opportunities we have with existing drugs and candidates in the pipeline".
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Dr Manica Balasegaram, from the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, said: "The situation is fairly grim". This is due to newly evolved strains of the #Disease that have become drug resistant, which will eventually make the disease resistant to all drugs used to fight the disease.
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are particularly smart". In the meantime, the best thing to do is focus on prevention of the disease and increased awareness about symptoms, condom use, and sexually transmitted infections.
It noted there were no affordable, rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for gonorrhoea.
It was found that gonorrhea had developed a widespread resistance to drugs that have normally been used to treat it.
Gonorrhea symptoms include a burning sensation when urinating and unusual discharge from the penis or vagina.
Health experts say gonorrhea is one of 11 types of bacteria that pose a serious threat to human health, specifically because of the urgent need for new antibiotics.
Dr Marc Sprenger, Director of Antimicrobial Resistance at World Health Organization said: "To control gonorrhoea, we need new tools and systems for better prevention, treatment, earlier diagnosis, and more complete tracking and reporting of new infections, antibiotic use, resistance and treatment failures".
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