Friday, October 23, 2009

Local health experts work to battle STDs - News

"'Gonorrhea, syphilis and yeast infections are all treatable using antibiotics.'

­'If you get syphilis or gonorrhea the antibiotics will kill the bacteria.' said Bartlau.

Students are cautioned to take all of the prescribed medication and not discontinue the antibiotic when symptoms disappear. The danger is that most of the bacteria might be killed, but a few microbes may remain and grow a culture of more resistant bacteria, she said."

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