Experts have been worried for a while that time is running out for the last two antibiotics that are able to cure gonorrhea infections. On Wednesday, some revealed there may be even less time left on the clock than had been previously thought.
Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Hawaii's department of health reported a cluster of cases of gonorrhea in that state in which the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria showed high-level resistance to one of the drugs, azithromycin, as well as reduced susceptibility to the second drug, ceftriaxone.
The two drugs are used in combination, a move experts hope will slow down the bacteria's relentless march through the antibiotic medicine cabinet.
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