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Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in England and
cases are soaring.
England's public health agency has discovered more
cases of
gonorrhoea that are resistant to nearly all antibiotics.
In a rare public alert last week, the World Health Organization warned that highly resistant
cases of
gonorrhoea have now been detected in Japan, Europe and Australia.
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.