The man was undergoing treatment with one last antibiotic that doctors hoped would show signs of success by the end of the month. 'We are following up this case to ensure that the infection was effectively treated with other options and the risk of any onward transmission is minimized.' Gwenda Hughes of Public Health England told BBC News. 'This is the first time a case has displayed such high-level resistance to both of these drugs and to most other commonly used antibiotics,' Dr. The bacteria can cause lead to serious complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility. However, symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from the genitals, or pain and bleeding during urination or menstruation.

An infected person may have no symptoms, but can still transmit the infection. Gonorrhea is transmitted through unprotected vaginal, oral or anal intercourse and even just genital contact with an infected partner. lists gonorrhea, which is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, as the second most common bacterial STI in the U.K. The Department of Health and Social Care in the U.K. But the common antibiotic treatment has failed to fight off this man's case. Gonorrhea's primary treatment is a combination of theazithromycin and ceftriaxone antibiotics. Health officials said the man had a regular partner in the U.K., but they believe the origin of the gonorrhea superbug stems from sexual activity with a woman in southeast Asia earlier this year. Public Health England officials said the man contracted the first reported case of the sexually transmitted infection in which two separate antibiotics were unable to cure the bacterial spread, BBC News first reported.

picked up the world's worst-ever case of super-gonorrhea after a sexual rendezvous with a woman in southeast Asia. Government health officials in England say a man in the U.K.

Super gonorrhea symptoms