Gonorrhea — AKA The Clap — Is Excellent At Resisting Antibiotics
The sexually transmitted disease is typically not fatal but can cause a lifetime of suffering. And the go-to drugs are increasingly less effective.
People like to make jokes about gonorrhea.
Maybe it's because this sexually transmitted disease is known as "the clap' (perhaps a reference to the French term "clapier," meaning brothel, or to an early treatment – clapping a heavy object on the man's sexual organ to get discharge to come out).
As the old (and not very funny) joke goes, "if you spread it around, is it called applause?"
But a new study illustrates why this sexually transmitted disease is no laughing matter. , the bacterium that
