18/04/2016

'Super-gonorrhoea' is spreading across UK and doctors may not be able to treat it



There is “huge concern” among doctors that “super-gonorrhoea” is spreading across the country, according to reports.
The highly drug-resistant strain of the sexually transmitted superbug is at risk of becoming untreatable if the only fully effective antibiotic remaining fails, experts said.

There have been efforts to track down the sexual partners of those infected with the disease, which can cause infertility.
However, Public Health England (PHE) is understood to have acknowledged that efforts to contain the spread have been of “limited success”.
The alert comes after Chancellor George Osborne warned resistance to antibiotics will become “an even greater threat to mankind than cancer” without global action.
PHE said an increase in cases of super-gonorrhoea was a “further sign of the very real threat of antibiotic resistance to our ability to treat infections”.
George Osborne
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The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV issued an alert to clinicians urging them to follow up cases of high-level drug-resistant gonorrhoea and trace patients’ sexual partners.
Its president, Dr Elizabeth Carlin, told the BBC: “The spread of high-level azithromycin-resistant gonorrhoea is a huge concern and it is essential that every effort is made to contain further spread.
“Failure to respond appropriately will jeopardise our ability to treat gonorrhoea effectively and will lead to poorer health outcomes for individuals and society as a whole.”

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