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By James Gallagher<\/span>Health and science reporter, BBC News website<\/span><\/p>

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Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said.<\/p>\n

It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhoea, it is now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible.<\/p>

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The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics.<\/p>

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Experts said the situation was “fairly grim” with few new drugs on the horizon.<\/p>\n

About 78 million people pick up the STI each year and it can cause infertility.<\/p>

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The World Health Organization analysed data from 77 countries which showed gonorrhoea’s resistance to antibiotics was widespread.<\/p>\n

Dr Teodora Wi, from the WHO, said there had even been three cases – in Japan, France and Spain – where the infection was completely untreatable.<\/p>

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She said: “Gonorrhoea is a very smart bug, every time you introduce a new class of antibiotics to treat gonorrhoea, the bug becomes resistant.”<\/p>

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Worryingly, the vast majority of gonorrhoea infections are in poor countries where resistance is harder to detect.<\/p>\n

“These cases may just be the tip of the iceberg,” she added.<\/p>\n

Throat infection<\/h2>\n

Gonorrhoea can infect the genitals, rectum and throat, but it is the last that is most concerning health officials.<\/p>\n

Dr Wi said antibiotics could lead to bacteria in the back of the throat, including relatives of gonorrhoea, developing resistance.<\/p>\n

She said: “When you use antibiotics to treat infections like a normal sore throat, this mixes with the\u00a0Neisseria\u00a0<\/i>species in your throat and this results in resistance.”<\/p>\n

Thrusting gonorrhoea bacteria into this environment through oral sex can lead to super-gonorrhoea.<\/p>\n

“In the US, resistance [to an antibiotic] came from men having sex with men because of pharyngeal infection,” she added.<\/p>\n

A decline in condom use, which had soared because of fears of HIV\/Aids, is thought to help the infection spread.<\/p>\n

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