Health experts are warning that a new "super gonorrhoea" could prove impossible to treat after the number of cases of the sexually transmitted infection hit a record high. Data from the UK Health ...

Scientists have found the first new antibiotic treatment for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea since the 1990s. Experts discovered that gepotidacin, an antibiotic currently used to treat ...

Not only is gonorrhoea becoming increasingly common, but rising antibiotic resistance is making the once easily curable infection increasingly difficult to treat, reports Katharine Lang Drug resistant ...

A rise in antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea infections in England has been described as "concerning" by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Since the first case of ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhoea ...

Medical experts have raised concerns over the growing threat of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, syphilis and staph infections, warning that these infections could become life-threatening if poorly treated.

Since 2008, the overall rate of reported gonorrhoea infections has more than doubled across Europe, going up from 8 per 100 000 population to 20 cases per 100 000 persons in 2014. Looking at ways of ...

Having a sexually transmitted infection is a bad enough experience on its own. Usually though, it is nothing that a treatment course from your doctor won’t help clear off. And then you promise ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.

Based on national surveillance data, an increase in the number of cases of both gonorrhoea and chlamydia has been observed during the last 5 years. Whereas the number of chlamydia cases usually is ...

Gonorrhoea is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that affects millions of people worldwide. Many people who have ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Young Britons make up more than half of the 400,000 new cases of sexually transmitted diseases diagnosed last year, while gonorrhoea and syphilis infections have dropped, health ...

Gonorrhoea is a common, sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae. GSK said, in 2023, there were over 600,000 cases of gonorrhoea reported in the United States according to the ...