England and Wales healtth expertise are on high alert for
untreatable gonorrhoea. Although the cases in UK has been
treatable but the infection rates are still rise. The Health
Protection Agency (HPA) has launching an action to reduce
transmission and they also monitor for this problem. Gonorrhoea
is common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in
England. There’s 21,000 new cases found in 2011. The expert has
develop resistance to the antibiotic called ceftriaxone and
azithromycin. However, cases of treatment failure have now been
reported globally and no new drugs in the pipleine. England’s
chief medical officer has advised the government to add the
threat of the infection’s resistance to front-line antibiotics
to the civil emergency risk register. Dr Gwenda Hughes from
Health Protection Agency said ” “We are seriously concerned
about continuing high levels of gonorrhoea transmission and
repeat infection, suggesting we need to do more to reduce unsafe
sexual behaviour.”. The first case of antibioti