Gonorrhea is a case in point.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae , is a direct result of both chronic overprescription and poor case management, says Marc Lapp in his book, When Antibiotics Fail. Statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control show that PPNG gonorrhea has doubled from 1983 to 1984 to almost 7000 cases. Lapp asserts, we are facing a frightening series of epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases that owe their ascendancy in whole or part to the effects of chronic and ineffective use of antibiotics. Continuing misuse spawned multiply resistant staph that could withstand almost all of the major antibiotics. . . . In the book, Biotechnology of Antibiotics , the authors concur with Lapp regarding Staphylococcus aureus resistance.