If untreated, diseases like chlamydia can cause female infertility
Kenyan researchers have found two new strains from two common sexually transmitted diseases among a group of women in a town in western Kenya.
More than 400 women above the age of 15 were diagnosed with gonorrhoea and chlamydia with new mutations.
The researchers from the Kenya Medical Research Institute fear that the disease could spread to neighbouring Uganda as the town, Busia, is along the border where truck drivers stop.
This group of people are at an increased risk of getting HIV and sexually transmitted disease.
The researchers are planning to conduct more studies to establish how widespread the disease is and whether the new mutations can be treated by standard antibiotics.
They said the changes on the genetic makeup of the virus had not been seen before.
-BBC
