gonorrhea

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Researchers are testing a new oral medication called zoliflodacin that could offer a simpler way to treat gonorrhea, especially strains that no longer respond well to existing antibiotics.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

However, many health departments had already started offering doxy PEP due to the overwhelmingly positive response it showed in clinical trials, reducing chlamydia and gonorrhea by 70% and 50%, respectively.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

A new antibiotic, the first to be developed in decades, can cure gonorrhea infections at least as effectively as the most powerful current treatment, a large clinical trial has found.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2023

That could partly explain why one of the doxy-PEP studies in France, where around 60 percent of gonorrhea infections are resistant to antibiotics, found that the treatment had no significant impact on gonorrhea infection rates.

From Scientific American • Oct. 6, 2023

Where either parent suffers from gonorrhea, the child is in danger of being born blind.

From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret