The situation has been exacerbated by gonorrhea’s growing resistance to most antibiotics, and the one that most doctors rely on, ceftriaxone, is now under threat as well. That’s left experts clamor…
GSK Plc’s experimental gonorrhea vaccine got fast-track designation from US regulators, putting the shot in position to become the first preventive for a common, often-undetected infection that’s gaining resistance to treatment.
In 2020, some 82 million people worldwide caught gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that can lead to complications including infertility. While some patients show early symptoms, such as pain or urethral discharge in men or vaginal discharge in women, many cases may be missed even as the disease does long-term damage.
“We’re very concerned that we are staring straight in the face the prospect of untreatable gonorrhea,” said Jeffrey Klausner, who directed sexually transmitted disease prevention and control for the San Francisco Department of Public Health from 1998 to 2009.The threat of gonorrhea, along with other sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and chlamydia, is on the rise around the world. Cases hit a record high in England last year.
“There is this huge unmet medical need” for better diagnostics and treatment, Giordano said in an interview.
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