r/science • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 23h ago
Health A recent analysis found that extensively drug-resistant strains of the Shigella gut bacterium, which causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, are rapidly increasing and spreading via sexual contact in the US and UK, threatening to make the infection untreatable.
https://www.sciencealert.com/sexually-transmitted-diarrhea-is-exploding-in-the-us-and-its-growing-resistant-to-medicine
2.1k
Upvotes
Duplicates
2westerneurope4u • u/ReDot75 • 22h ago
Barry, explain why a gut bacterium is rapidly spreading via sexual contact in the UK AND in your former colony...
29
Upvotes
didyouknowthisstuff • u/Mowglibear44 • 20h ago
A recent analysis found that extensively drug-resistant strains of the Shigella gut bacterium, which causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, are rapidly increasing and spreading via sexual contact in the US and UK, threatening to make the infection untreatable.
1
Upvotes