Gonorrhoea symptoms: Four signs you could have the sexually transmitted infection

GONORRHOEA symptoms usually develop within two weeks of a person being infected. But sometimes do not appear until many months later, which means the condition can go untreated for some time. The more time you leave, the more likely you are to experience complications. There are four signs of the STI in men and women […]

English man catches SUPER GONORRHOEA after one-night stand in Asia – first confirmed case

An English man has become the first person in the world to catch so-called ‘super gonorrhoea’, which has proved resistant to antibiotics. The man, who hasn’t been named, is said to have caught the STI from a woman during a trip to south-east Asia earlier this year. Public Health England has issued a warning that […]

STI symptom checker: Do I have gonorrhoea, chlamydia or syphilis? Signs of sex infections

STIs – the common abbreviation for sexually transmitted infections – can be passed on via protected sex, and some New Year’s Eve partygoers may be concerned about their sexual health today. Common STIs include chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhoea, and they are on the rise, according to recent figures. In 2016 there were 420,000 diagnoses of […]

Straight People Living In Major Cities Can't Stop Giving Each Other Gonorrhoea

There were 23,887 new diagnoses of gonorrhoea – three-quarters of them in men – in 2016, an annual report from the Kirby Institute in Sydney released today found. Gonorrhoea had been uncommon in “urban heterosexuals” but rates in this population had risen rapidly over the past five years, the institute’s Rebecca Guy said in a […]