This could mark a frustrating trend in a disease thatвЂ™s already common and on the rise.

Manica Balasegaram, director of the World Health OrganizationвЂ™s Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership, said thereвЂ™s been reports of similar drug resistant gonorrhea in the recent past in France, Japan, and Spain. The man reportedly picked up the superbug from a sexual partner in Southeast Asia earlier this year.ДЄ combination of the antibiotics azithromycin and ceftriaxone - the cocktail recommended by the World Health Organization and other agencies - has failed to cure it. The case highlights the challenges of combating the sexually transmitted disease and, experts say, it comes as efforts to develop the next gonorrhea-fighting drugs have largely stalled. Now, a man in Britain has caught a strain thatвЂ™s resistant to some of the last antibiotics the medical community has left to fight the illness. Since the 1940s, when penicillin was first used to combat the infection, gonorrhea has gradually become resistant to every drug thatвЂ™s been thrown at it. Use condoms consistently and correctly with all new or casual partners, test regularly for STIs and if you have any symptoms such as unusual discharge, donвЂ™t have sex until you are tested.The ongoing escalation in the long battle against gonorrhea has taken a worrying turn. 'There are simple steps you can take to reduce your risk of gonorrhoea and other STIs. Adding antibiotic resistance into the mix makes the impact on your life even greater. 'Getting an STI isnвЂ™t as simple as taking some medicine and moving on with your life вЂ“ if not properly treated, they can have long term impacts on your and your partner's health. ItвЂ™s too soon to say whether this will be the start of a longer-term trend, but we do know that STIs are on the rise in general. UKHSA said ceftriaxone resistance is most common in the Asia-Pacific region and is occasionally detected in the UK in people who have visited or who have moved to the UK from this region.Дr Katy Sinka, STI Section Head at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said: 'After a couple of years without any cases of this hard to treat form of gonorrhoea, we have now seen four cases in the last two months. READ MORE: Birmingham tops UK in funding for STI testing and contraception The Government said the first case was reported in December 2021 and three more - a woman in her 20s in London and the Midlands couple - were confirmed in an announcement on February 7.ДЇurther investigations are under way but there are currently no known connections between the cases in London and the Midlands.Д¬eftriaxone is the main antibiotic used to treat gonorrhoea in the UK and being infected with a ceftriaxone-resistant strain means this antibiotic will not easily treat the infection.ДЇollow-up tests are still awaited to see if treatment has been successful in these three recent cases. READ MORE: Roblox issues statement over being riddled with sex games That includes a heterosexual couple in their 20s based in the Midlands, who were recently diagnosed with a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae - the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea - which has resistance to the antibiotic ceftriaxone. A new antibiotic-resistant strain of super-gonorrhoea has been found in the Midlands.ДЇour cases of the disease have been recorded in the UK so far, the UK Health Security Agency said.

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