STI test is good practice for anyone who has unprotected or casual sex as it can pick up an infection before it progresses, or before it is passed on to someone else.
However, there is one relatively common STI that is rarely detected, known to resist most antibiotics, and is a cause of painful urethritis and infertility.
Mycoplasma genitalium, or MGen for short, infects the urinary tract and genitals of roughly one in 100 Brits, causing some sufferers painful weeing, discharge, and an inflamed and discharging anus - and that is just in men.
Despite emerging in London in the 1980s, there was no functional test for MGen until one was pioneered in 2019. This test is not yet available across the NHS, meaning many cases can be treated as though they are more common infections like gonorrhea and chlamydia. Want the Daily Star's sexiest stories news straight to your inbox?
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