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Gonorrhea Close to Gaining Superbug Status

(March 30) -- Unless medical experts devise a new way to treat it, gonorrhea -- the world's second most common sexually transmitted infection, after chlamydia -- will soon become a drug-resistant superbug. "This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will...

First Case of Fearsome TB Strain Found in US

LANTANA, Fla. (Dec. 27) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened, and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4...