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International Health Indonesian Sumatra Scientists find first super- evacuates hundreds of people in fear of bug strain of gonorrhea (Reuters) - Scientists same time. volcanic eruption have found a “superbug” This technique is used Johnny Depp strain of gonorrhea in Ja- in the treatment of some Which of Johnny Depp’s Co- (KUNA) - Hundreds of Indonesia’s Sumatra pan that is resistant to all other diseases like tuber- stars Thinks He Looks Good in Island have been evacuated from their homes by recommended antibiotics culosis in an attempt to Drag? http://eonli.ne/odRXv5 Monday after hike of alert level to its highest in and say it could transform make it more difficult for anticipation of the eruption of the Lokon Volcano. a once easily treatable in- the bacteria to learn how The authorities issued warnings to people residing near fection into a global pub- to conquer the drugs. the mountain area of the volcano last night, after the lic health threat. Unemo said however that volcano started spewing smoke and ash two days ago. The new strain of the experience from previous The Indonesian Center for Volcanology report- sexually transmitted disease degrees of resistance ac- ed that ashen smoke was reaching a height of 500 -- called H041 -- cannot quired by gonorrhea sug- meters last weekend, pointing out this is the sec- be killed by any currently gested this new multi-drug ond eruption of its kind, following the Sobotan recommended treatments resistant strain could spread eruption earlier in the month in northern Sumatra. for gonorrhea, leaving doc- around the world within The authority stated all areas 3.5 kilometers from the Lokon tors with no other option decades. volcano must be evacuated, as an eruption of gasses and than to try medicines so “Based on the histori- Kate lava is expected at any moment within the few coming days. far untested against the cal data ... resistance has The authority’s official spokesman told reporters disease. emerged and spread inter- Middleton today that the plan is to evacuate 28,000 people re- Magnus Unemo of the nationally within 10 to 20 Prince William and Kate Mid- siding near the volcano area. All foreign tourists are Swedish Reference Lab- years,” he said. dleton Make a Red Carpet meanwhile prohibited from entering the area in fear oratory for Pathogenic ing pattern. ed States alone, according Asked whether a class Redder? for their safety, to avoid a disaster like that of 1991 Neisseria, who discov- British “Japan has historically to the Centers for Disease of drugs called carbapen- Kate is glowing in Alexander when several tourists died in a volcanic eruption. ered the strain with col- been the place for the first Control and Prevention ems -- known as the most McQueen & Will is looking Indonesia lies within an archipelago with ac- leagues from Japan in sam- scientists said emergence and subsequent (CDC), the number of cas- powerful antibiotics yet dapper in his tux tive volcanoes and suffers frequent earthquakes ples from Kyoto, described global spread of different es is estimated at around devised -- might be a last as it sits of the so called “Ring of Fire” region it as both “alarming” and last year that types of resistance in gon- 700,000 a year. ditch option for treating stretching from Asia Pacific to the Indian Ocean. “predictable.” orrhea,” he said. British scientists said this new gonorrhea strain, The country’s most active volcano is central Jawa’s “Since antibiotics be- there was a The team’s analysis of last year that there was a Unemo said there would Marapi, which killed over 350 people since the start came the standard treat- the strain found it was ex- real risk of gonorrhea be- first need to be trials to as- of its eruption last October. ment for gonorrhea in the real risk of tremely resistant to all ce- coming a superbug -- a bac- sess their potential. 1940s, this bacterium has phalosporin-class antibi- teria that has mutated and “Carbapenems have nev- shown a remarkable ca- gonorrhea otics -- the last remaining become resistant to multi- er been used for the treat- pacity to develop resis- drugs still effective in treat- ple classes of antibiotics -- ment of gonorrhea so we Technology tance mechanisms to all becoming ing gonorrhea. after increasing reports of cannot interpret the data drugs introduced to con- Gonorrhea is a bacte- gonorrhea drug resistance in any reliable or quality- trol it,” he said. a superbug rial sexually transmitted emerged in Hong Kong, assured way at the mo- Jennifer In a telephone interview infection and if left un- China, Australia and oth- ment,” he said. Elpida to raise $990 Unemo, who will present treated can lead to pelvic er parts of Asia. The World Health Or- Lopez details of the finding at a inflammatory disease, ec- Experts say the best way ganization estimates there million for new chips conference of the Interna- topic pregnancy and infer- to reduce the risk of even are at least 340 million Is Jennifer Lopez Finally Say- tional Society for Sexually tility in women. greater resistance devel- new cases of curable sex- ing “Yes!” To Another Season Transmitted Disease Re- It is one of the most com- oping -- beyond the ur- ually transmitted infec- of American Idol? http://eonli. search (ISSTDR) in Que- mon sexually transmitted gent need to develop ef- tions -- including syphi- ne/pgKLLi bec, Canada on Monday, diseases in the world and fective new drugs -- is to lis, gonorrhea, chlamydia said the fact that the strain is most prevalent in south treat gonorrhea with com- and trichomoniasis -- every had been found first in Ja- and southeast Asia and sub- binations of two or more year among people aged pan also followed an alarm- Saharan Africa. 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