Covid-19 pandemic which has caused great suffering and deaths has also brought super gonorrhea sexually transmitted infection (STI) which is resistant to drugs.
World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that overuse of antibiotics to treat Coronavirus has resulted in the more rapid spread of a type of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.
Super gonorrhea does not respond to the normal first-line treatments, making it particularly dangerous and uncomfortable for those afflicted.
According to WHO, super gonorrhea results when the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, develops a high level of resistance to the antibiotics normally used to treat the infection: azithromycin and ceftriaxone.
“Overuse of antibiotics in the community can fuel the emergence of antimicrobial resistance in gonorrhea by killing off forms of the infection that are vulnerable to the drug, and creating a survival-of-the -fittest environment for variants of the bacterium that are immune to the drug’s effects to thrive in,” said WHO.
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WHO further said that super gonorrhea strain is rapidly spreading because people aren’t going to the hospital unless they come down with Covid-19 symptoms. Doctors aren’t catching the super gonorrhea in time as people are self-medicating
“During the pandemic, STI services have also been disrupted. This means more STI cases are not diagnosed properly with more people self-medicating as a result,” said WHO.
