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Humans are transmitting infections caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains that fight antibiotics, reports The Washington Post.

"Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance," Davies wrote. "Gonorrhoea has rapidly acquired resistance to new antibiotics, leaving few alternatives to the current recommendations. It is therefore extremely important that suboptimal treatment does not occur." His letter was co-signed by England's chief pharmaceutical officer, Dr. Keith Ridge.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States, has reported that just more than 350,000 cases of gonorrhea have been reported last year, Britain displayed 35,000 cases. However, it was in March that Public Health England discovered 16 cases of "super-gonorrhoea" that are resistant to antibiotics.

Today, gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted disease in England, according to scienceworldreport.

"Investigations are ongoing into a number of cases of anti-microbial resistant gonorrhoea," Dr. Andrew Lee, from Public Health England, said. "Public Health England will continue to monitor, and act on, the spread of antimicrobial resistance and potential gonorrhoea treatment failures, to make sure they are identified and managed promptly."