{"id":880,"date":"2012-09-18T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T11:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=880"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:08:45","slug":"new-gonorrhoea-cases-increase-25-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/new-gonorrhoea-cases-increase-25-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gonorrhoea cases increase 25% in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The latest figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that the new number of people with gonorrhoea in 2011 was 21,000 in the UK , up from 17,000 in 2010.\u00a0 Most of the new cases were in young people aged 25 or under.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7752\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-8-2048x1037.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The 25 per cent increase in new gonorrhoea diagnoses in 2011, plus high rates of repeat infection and co-infection with other STIs, shows more must be done to encourage safer sexual behaviour through health promotion and ensuring easy access to sexual health services and screening.&#8221; said Dr Gwenda Hughes, head of STI surveillance at the HPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gonorrhoea is developing resistance to antibiotics used to treat it.&nbsp; With some strains now being treated with two different antibiotics at the same time, one of which is an injection.&nbsp; Gonorrhoea can cause infertility and long term discomfort if not treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better2Know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/std-sti-testing\/gonorrhoea\">tests for gonorrhoea<\/a> at all of its nationwide clinics.&nbsp; It is included in our platinum, full, comfort and peace of mind screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that the new number of people with gonorrhoea in 2011 was 21,000 in the UK , up from 17,000 in 2010.\u00a0 Most of the new cases were in young people aged 25 or under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2256,1245,1230,568,2208,655,570,1699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}