Gonorrhea Could Soon Become Untreatable

CRE sickens thousands of Americans each year, but no new classes of drugs to treat it are in clinical development .

In the U.S., there are not enough antibiotics in development to meet current and anticipated patient needs.

As news headlines repeatedly remind us, humanity is falling behind in its long battle with bacterial diseases. The more we use antibiotics, the less effective they become, and we are quickly running out of drugs that can treat increasingly resistant infections. Sooner or later, bacteria will evolve to resist every antibiotic we have.