:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mentormedier/V6DUOROB3ZDYXHEM7NE2T2LD5Q.jpg "Senior doctor fears antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea in Norway – Dagsavisen")
Gonorrhea infection was very rare in Norway 20 years ago, but in recent years, and especially after the pandemic, the incidence has increased sharply, writes NRK.
Last year, according to the channel, just under 3,000 cases were registered, which is an increase of 40 per cent from the previous year. January and February this year show a further increase with 600 cases of infection.
The bacterium that causes gonorrhea has gradually become resistant to several types of antibiotics that previously worked.
– It’s starting to get really troublesome. Now we really only have one good medicine left that we use in Norway, says senior physician Åse Haugstvedt at the Olafia Clinic in Oslo to NRK.
But cases of gonorrhea that cannot be broken by this one drug, called ceftriaxone, have already been detected in a number of countries such as France, Spain and England. Those who get this type of gonorrhea must therefore live with the infection in their body.
– That makes me very worried, says Haugstvedt.
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