Two people in Australia have been diagnosed with ‘super gonorrhoea’, a first for the country.
Both cases were discovered in the last month, with one person in Queensland and the other in Western Australia.
The antibiotic-resistant super bug, which has begun spreading since it was recorded for the first time in the UK earlier this year, is effectively incurable.
Last year, the WHO warned that the untreatable strain of gonorrhoea is rapidly spreading across the world putting millions of lives at risk

The sexually transmitted bacteria can live at the back of the throat and, because of this, has evolved immunity to antibiotics used to treat common throat infections. Oral sex is therefore one of the major causes of its spread
Public Health England revealed the diagnosis of the world’s first super gonorrhoea case at the end of last month, with the disease proving resistant to ceftriaxone and azithromycin – the two drugs the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends for treatment.
The sexually transmitted bacteria can live at the back of the throat and, because of this, have evolved immunity to antibiotics used to treat common throat infections.
Oral sex is therefore one of the major causes of its spread.
According to the Brisbane Times, one of the Australian cases is thought to have acquired the infection while in Southeast Asia – which is also where the man from the UK caught the disease.
Investigations are still ongoing to determine the source of the other Australian case.
Last year, the WHO warned that the untreatable strain of gonorrhoea is rapidly spreading across the world putting millions of lives at risk.
Super gonorrhoea is one of many antibiotic-resistant infections which together kill an estimated 700,000 people worldwide each year.
Deemed to be one of the biggest threats to humanity, the issue has previously been cited as severe as terrorism and global warming.

The antibiotic-resistant super bug, which has begun spreading since it was recorded for the first time in the UK earlier this year, is effectively incurable
It is caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium, and swept across Britain two years ago.
It was resistant to the common antibiotic ciprofloxacin and extended-spectrum cephalosporins, which are the drugs of last resort.
A WHO analysis of STI data around the world previously revealed 97 per cent of countries have reported strains of gonorrhoea that are resistant to ciprofloxacin.
A further 81 per cent stated there was increasing resistance to just azithromycin. And more than 50 countries warned strains were showing some form of resistance to ceftraixone – another last-resort treatment.