A new STD on the wild? Here the facts

A little-known sexually transmitted disease that has attracted more attention lately may actually be fairly common, according to a new study.

The study found that the bacterium
Mycoplasma genitalium , which is thought to be sexually transmitted, infects more than 1 percent of people ages 16 to 44 in the United Kingdom. That comes out to about 250,000 people, according to U.K. census data. Studies in the United States have found that a similar percentage of people here are infected with M. genitalium.

That makes M. genitalium a more common sexually transmitted disease (STD) than gonorrhea, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source livescience.com/52826-mycoplasma-genitalium-std.html