If you had followed our article which was based on gonorrhea you now might be aware of the fact what is gonorrhea, its symptoms and causes, now we would like to share some more information on gonorrhea which is a common type of sexual transmitted disease.

According to the new study we cam to know that gonorrhea a sexually transmitted disease is now becoming a drug resistant superbug, if your doctor is failing to advice you the new way of treating it according to a leading sexual health experts. A well known Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhoea from Britain's Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs.

SHe further added that gonorrhea is a a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhoea will become a very difficult infection to treat.

Do you know gonorrhea is a common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection and if left untreated can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women.

Around the world the WHO estimates that there are at least 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections -- including syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis -- every year among people aged 15 to 49.


Ison said the highest incidences of gonorrhoea were in south and southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but as yet the WHO has no breakdown by individual infection type.

Current treatment for gonorrhoea in most countries consists of a single antibiotic dose of either cefixime or ceftriaxone.

But Ison, who is due to speak on the issue at a Society for General Microbiology conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday, said strains of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria were starting to become resistant and could soon become impervious to all current antibiotic treatment options.