Symptoms of gonorrhea as cases of STI reaches record high across Europe

increase since 2015, BBC News reports.

Cases of syphilis more than doubled in the same period to 45,557 as well.

The ECDC defines gonorrhea (which is sometimes referred to as ‘the clap’) as ‘a sexually transmitted infection caused by a bacteria that can affect the genital, rectal and oropharyngeal (throat) areas of both men and women’.

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