麻豆社

Super-resistant strains of gonorrhoea are proving hard to treat by the most common antibiotics, according to the World Health Organisation.

The UN health agency is now recommending that doctors start prescribing a different version of the drug.

They say that gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis - the other common sexually transmitted diseases - infect more than 200 million people every year.

Other experts even believe that using mouthwash could help prevent gonorrhoea.

Dr Yinka Akinfenwa, a gynaecologist practicing in the United Kingdom, speaks to the 麻豆社's Akwasi Sarpong.

(Image: The gonorrhoea virus viewed under a microscope. Credit: SPL.)