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W.H.O. warns about spread of untreatable gonorrhoea superbug

An untreatable gonorrhoea superbug is spreading, warns the World Health Organisation. WHO experts say it is
only a matter of time before last-resort antibiotics used to fight drug-resistant forms of the sexually-transmitted disease would be of no use. Dr. Queen Dube,is from the Queen Elizabeth Central hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, where she says unprotected sex is the chief cause of it's spread.

(Picture: Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Bacteria, the bacterium responsible for the sexually transmitted infection Gonorrhoea; Credit: 麻豆社)

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