The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea could one day become untreatable, and that the public should be concerned.
Gonorrhea has a long history of developing antibiotic resistance.
In the 1940s, it happened with antibiotic sulfa-drugs.
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