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This New STD Can Kill In a Matter of Days

This New STD Can Kill In a Matter of Days

Doctors are grappling with a lethal new strain of gonorrhea (your great-grandparents called it “the clap”) that’s immune to antibiotics and can “put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days. This is very dangerous,” said Alan Christianson, who is a doctor of naturopathic medicine in Phoenix. “We need to move now before it gets out of hand.” The strain was discovered in a Japanese sex worker back in 2011, and has so far baffled scientists who are trying to treat it. If it starts to spiral out of control, doctors warn that it “might be a lot worse than AIDS” …

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