Kenyan researchers discovered two new strains of two common sexually transmitted diseases in a group of women in a western Kenyan town.
More than 400 women over the age of 15 were diagnosed with new mutations of gonorrhea and chlamydia.
The researchers from the Kenya Medical Research Institute are concerned that the disease will spread to neighboring Uganda because Busia is a border town where truck drivers stop.
This population is at a higher risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
More research is planned to determine how widespread the disease is and whether the new mutations can be treated with standard antibiotics.
They claimed that the changes in the virus’s genetic makeup had never been seen before.
