The Gonorrhoea has drugs don't work

The prospect of untreatable gonorrhea has provoked alarm around the world, and there are no new classes of antibiotics in development
In thigh week's Scrubbing Up column, Peter Greenhouse of the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASH H) argues financial incentives will be needed to seek a new cure
We're all familiar with stories about hospital-acquired super bugs - MARS and the like - becoming more difficult to treat, and are fearful whenever an elderly relative needs in-patient care
But now, with a report from Japan of multitude-resistant gonorrhea, and the festive season in full swing, the specter of an untreatable sexually transmitted infection looms over us - and our teenagers - for the first time in a generation.