WHO warns of rise in Super Gonorrhea due to overuse of antibiotics amid COVID-19

World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned about rise in gorrhea amid COVID-19 pandemic because of excessive use of antibiotics, which is causing resistance to sexually transmitted infection. According to Sun, a WHO spokesperson has said that COVID-19 pandemic has created an ideal situation for super gorrhea to thrive because of sudden surge in use of antibiotics. 

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UN health body spokesperson reportedly said that lack of STI services amid pandemic could also be causing gorrhea cases to rise. spokesperson ded that during pandemic more people are self-medicating due to hospitals preoccupied with COVID-19 cases and t safe for regular visits. This could fuel an emergence of resistance in gorrhea, including super gorrhea or extensively drug-resistant gorrhea with high-level resistance to current recommended treatment such as ceftriaxone and azithromycin. 

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Rise in Gorrhea cases

Gorrhea is one of oldest kwn sexually transmitted infections in world with more than 90 million global cases every year. WHO says that number is rising at an alarming rate of 17 percent. Even though most cases are reported in African continent, lately western world has also recorded a rise in gorrhea infection. According to United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), country has witnessed a 63 percent rise in gorrhea cases since 2014. 

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United Kingdom, which worst affected country in Europe by gorrhea, could see more than 4 lakh cases every year by 2030. WHO says that rise in super gorrhea could cause a five-fold increase in HIV transmission, an increase in infertility cases, which has its own cultural and social implications, and severe neonatal eye infections that may le to blindness.

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