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Reuters<\/a><\/strong> Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, a diarrhea-causing superbug and a class of fast-growing killer bacteria dubbed a “nightmare” were classified as urgent public-health threats in the United States on Monday.<\/p>\n According to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at least 2 million people in the United States develop serious bacterial infections that are resistant to one or more types of antibiotics each year, and at least 23,000 die from the infections.<\/p>\n “For organism after organism, we’re seeing this steady increase in resistance rates,” Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a telephone interview. “We don’t have new drugs about to come out of the pipeline. If and when we get new drugs, unless we do a better job of protecting them, we’ll lose those, also.”<\/p>\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n This article was posted: Monday, September 16, 2013 at 5:40 pm<\/p>\n Tags: health<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <!– this is where we need to show the related articles <\/p>\n
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