{"id":49348,"date":"2023-09-06T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=49348"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:05:46","slug":"have-you-got-mgen-the-sti-plaguing-half-a-million-brits-but-nobodys-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/06\/have-you-got-mgen-the-sti-plaguing-half-a-million-brits-but-nobodys-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you got Mgen? The STI plaguing half a million Brits, but nobody\u2019s heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37130\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/STIs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/STIs-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/STIs-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/STIs-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/STIs-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/STIs.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mycoplasma genitalium, or Mgen, was discovered in the early 1980s, but a reliable test for Mgen wasn\u2019t produced until 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/09\/05\/what-is-mgen-the-sti-less-than-1-in-5-people-have-heard-of-19444488\/?ico=trending-module_tag_health_item-6\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Mycoplasma genitalium, or Mgen, was discovered in the early 1980s, but a reliable test for Mgen wasn\u2019t produced until 2017. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blood-test.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49349,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348\/revisions\/49349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}