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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Zoe Tidman

Rates of little-known STI that ‘could lead to infertility’ soar 64-fold

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The number of cases of a little-known sexually-transmitted infection have soared by more than 60 times in just seven years, official figures show.

Just 79 cases of mycoplasma genitalium (MG) were identified in England in 2015, according to public health data.

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