The Sun cited a US study that showed 71 percent of COVID patients were given antibiotics - while at most 4 percent had reason to need them. “Such a situation can fuel the emergence of resistance in gonorrhea including gonorrhea superbug (super gonorrhea) or gonorrhea with high-level resistance to current antibiotics recommended to treat it.”
“This means more STI cases are not diagnosed properly with more people self-medicating as a result,” the WHO rep told the UK paper. Making matters worse, the contagion has also “disrupted” usual STI services by overburdening medical centers and making people scared to go to them, the spokesman said. “Overuse of antibiotics in the community can fuel the emergence of antimicrobial resistance in gonorrhea,” a WHO spokesman told the outlet, noting that azithromycin was used for COVID-19 treatment earlier in the pandemic. The unnecessary overuse of antibiotics during the coronavirus pandemic has created a rise in drug-resistant strains of super gonorrhea, according to a new report.Īzithromycin, a common antibiotic used to treat chest and sinus infections, has been used during the pandemic to prevent co-infection of hospitalized coronavirus patients and to treat inflammatory symptoms of severe infections.īut the widespread doling out of the drug - which has since been found to have no clinical benefit for COVID-19 patients - has caused a buildup of resistance to the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, the World Health Organization (WHO) told the Sun. Syphilis cases on the rise in the US: What to know Man charged with sexually assaulting roommate’s 6-year-old daughter Man accidentally attaches his STD results to his ‘dream job’ applicationįDA authorizes first condom specifically marketed for anal sex
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