The Latest Breaking News from The UK Health Security Agency

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If yesterday’s icky statistics are anything to go by, the condom is in dire need of a rebrand. According to the UK Health Security Agency, we’re in the grips of a major STI surge: cases of gonorrhoea have gone up by 50 per cent in a year and the number…

Figures also show gonorrhoea diagnoses rose by 50% to 82,600 – the highest figure since records began in 1918

TB is overtaking Covid-19 as the most deadly infectious disease and experts fear mutant superstrains could be imported to Britain

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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a warning after a further 10 cases of mpox, which was previously known as monkeypox, have been diagnosed in the country

The number of school children taking up the meningitis and the 3-in-1 jab has dropped from 88% to 69.2%, warns the UK Health Security Agency

Two bird flu cases have been confirmed in humans in England

The cases are believed to be linked to exposure to sick birds on a single poultry farm

Bird flu has been detected in two poultry workers in England although there are no signs of human-to-human transmission, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.