New finding about gonorrhoea: Gonorrhoea is on the rise due to a decline in condom use during oral sex, the World Health Organisation warns. The drug-resistant STI can spread from the throat of an infected person without them even knowing that they have the disease as in most cases, there are no symptoms. Subsequently, resistance to treatment via antibiotics is increasing, with more than 50 countries reporting futile use of ESCs – the single medically-approved group of drugs that remain effective in treating the illness.
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“Transmission is very efficient from someone who has gonorrhea in their throat to their partner via oral sex,” Emilie Alirol from the Global Antibiotics Research and Development Partnership, told The New York Times.
“To control gonorrhoea, we need new tools and systems for better prevention, treatment, earlier diagnosis, and more complete tracking and reporting of new infections, antibiotic use, resistance and treatment failures,” said Dr Marc Sprenger, Director of Antimicrobial Resistance at WHO. “Specifically, we need new antibiotics, as well as rapid, accurate, point-of-care diagnostic tests – ideally, ones that can predict which antibiotics will work on that particular infection – and longer term, a vaccine to prevent gonorrhoea.”
The latest scare which has supercharged concerns regarding the disease is known as “super gonorrhoea”, which has so far proved impermeable to every treatment on the market. So far there have been no reported cases of the impervious condition in Britain, but patients have been diagnosed in Japan, France and Spain. When left untreated, gonorrhoea can lead to a number of severe medical issues that directly affect women, including pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility, in addition to an increased risk of HIV, the WHO states.
Gonorrhoea is the second most common bacterial STI in the UK, with 35,000 cases reported in England in 2014. Globally, it affects 78 million people per annum.
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