Rare Sex Bug Makes Its Way To New York

[Justice]

I don't remember seeing this discussed here before:

 

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) Two New Yorkers have been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease that is of the same strain recently found in Europe, the city health commissioner said Wednesday.

 

LGV, or Lymphogranuloma Venereum, is a rare form of chlamydia, and among the six cases identified in the United States so far most also had HIV, the infection that causes AIDS, Commissioner Thomas Frieden said at a news conference.

 

"We know LGV increases the risk of the spread of HIV because it causes ulcers and bleeding," Frieden said. He said LGV appears to primarily have affected bisexual and gay men.

 

"We are notifying New Yorkers that we have identified two cases of a new form of a sexually transmitted disease that has affected gay men in New York City," Frieden said.

 

In addition to the two cases in New York, he said, the federal Centers for Disease Control to date has confirmed three cases of LGV in San Francisco and one in Atlanta.

 

 

Frieden said gay and bisexual men were urged to take precautions by practicing abstinence or safe sex, including limiting the number of sex partners and using condoms.

 

Unprotected anal intercourse is the key risk factor for the spread of LGV, Frieden said, adding that it is difficult to diagnose. Symptoms include painful bloody rectal infection that may be confused with inflammatory bowel disease.

 

If identified early, Frieden said LGV can be treated with antibiotics. Untreated, it can cause permanent damage to the bowels and swelling and scarring of the genitals, he said.

 

In the past two decades, LGV has been uncommon in industrialized nations and had primarily been found in the tropics.

 

In November, the National Institute for Public Health in the Netherlands said 92 cases of LGV had been reported there over the preceding year, compared to the usual two or three cases a year.

 

Frieden said cases also have been found in the United Kingdom.

 

 

Source: http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_033151032.html

 

Play safe everyone!

 

Justice

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Yours is the fifth thread on this, but is an important reminder. Thanks!

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And here I thought that thing was a lizzard, but I guess it could be a really big cockroach making its way to New York....

 

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