In 1500s England, a clap referred to rabbit dens, but with their eager procreating, the word got associated with brothels, the source of gonorrhea. Today, the news is full of reports about a strain of Super Gonorrhea that’s going to destroy the human population in the next 10 minutes. As it happens, I have professional experience - and I stress professional experience - with PPNG, a type of the clap that eats penicillin for lunch. My work on a drug called Claforan made me an abject hero to the drug’s salesforce. Here’s why.
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