CDC: Change gonorrhea treatment for gay men
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The government recommended Thursday that doctors switch to a different drug to treat gonorrhea among gay and bisexual men.
The drug Cipro and the rest of the class of fluoroquinolone antibiotics -- long the standard treatment for the sexually transmitted disease -- no longer should be used as a first-line drug for men who have sex with men, federal health officials said. That's because of the rise of drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea among homosexuals....
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/04/29/resistant.gonorrhea.ap/index.html