Government advisers have called for a vaccination programme to target the growing threat of a biblical disease that has hit a record high in the 21st century.
The latest NHS data shows that there were more cases of gonorrhoea, the ancient sexually transmitted infection, in England in 2022 than at any time since records began more than 100 years ago.
Cases have been rising over the last few years, before dropping off during the lockdowns and isolation of the pandemic, only to return to a record high of 82,500 cases last year.
That was 50 per cent more than the previous year and 16 per cent higher than before the pandemic in 2019. Now the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised the government to offer a targeted vaccination programme to prevent the spread of gonorrhoea.
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