Antibiotic doxycycline can be morning-after pill for high-risk patients after unprotected sex, CDC suggests
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CDC officials are set to endorse the use of a common antibiotic as a morning-after preventive measure for gay and bisexual men to combat increasingly prevalent sexually transmitted infections.
The public has 45 days to comment on the proposal. The studies focused on gay and bisexual men as well as transgender women at higher risk to contract a sexually transmitted infection. Doxycycline is a cheap antibiotic that has been available for more than 40 years.
The CDC's guideline is based on previous studies that show a "demonstrated benefit" in specifically reducing chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis infections after people took a single 200 milligram doxycycline pill no later than 72 hours after unprotected sex.
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