"A SEX superbug spreading round the globe could become a global killer, doctors have warned.
The aggressive new HO41 strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to antibiotics.
Medics warned of a looming "emergency" as hospitals run out of treatments to stop it spreading.
William Smith, executive director of the USA's National Coalition of STD Directors, said: "It's an emergency situation.
"As time moves on, it's getting more hazardous."
Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, which can usually be cleared up with antibiotics if found early.
The HO41 strain of the bacterium was discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker who had been screened in 2009.
It has since been found in a small number of patients in Hawaii, California and Norway.
And because it resists most currently available drugs, it has been put in the same category as superbugs like MRSA - which kill thousands every year.
No deaths from HO41 have been reported so far but untreated gonorrhea can lead to potentially life-threatening blood infections and septic shock." TheSun
The aggressive new HO41 strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to antibiotics.
Medics warned of a looming "emergency" as hospitals run out of treatments to stop it spreading.
William Smith, executive director of the USA's National Coalition of STD Directors, said: "It's an emergency situation.
"As time moves on, it's getting more hazardous."
Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, which can usually be cleared up with antibiotics if found early.
The HO41 strain of the bacterium was discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker who had been screened in 2009.
It has since been found in a small number of patients in Hawaii, California and Norway.
And because it resists most currently available drugs, it has been put in the same category as superbugs like MRSA - which kill thousands every year.
No deaths from HO41 have been reported so far but untreated gonorrhea can lead to potentially life-threatening blood infections and septic shock." TheSun
Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;
but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18