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Gonorrhoea vaccine brings hope
It's feared the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea is becoming untreatable as antibiotics fail. So there's great interest in research from New Zealand, in which a vaccine has been shown to protect against it for the first time. About 78 million people pick up gonorrhoea, which can cause infertility, each year and the body does not build up resistance, no matter how many times it is infected.