February 7, 2006

...STILL PLAYING...:

Rare, Hard-To-Diagnose Sex Disease Sparks Fears (Indy Channel, February 7, 2006)

A particularly bad strain of chlamydia not usually seen in this country appears to be slowly spreading among gay and bisexual men, an infection that can increase their chances of getting or spreading the AIDS virus.

Called LGV chlamydia, this sexually transmitted disease has caused a worrisome outbreak in Europe, where some countries have confirmed dozens of cases. Diagnoses confirmed by U.S. health officials still are low, just 27 since they warned a year ago that the strain was headed here.

But specialists say that's undoubtedly a fraction of the infections, because this illness is incredibly hard to diagnose: Few U.S. clinics and laboratories can test for it. Painful symptoms can be mistaken for other illnesses, such as irritable bowel syndrome.

And because LGV chlamydia doesn't always cause noticeable symptoms -- right away, at least -- an unknown number of people may silently harbor and spread it, along with an increased risk of HIV transmission.


The single most important scientific/health advance in human history was distancing mankind from its own sewage. Homosexuality reverses that achievement.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 7, 2006 1:21 PM
Comments

There is a message here. And you have to be willfully evil not to get it.

Posted by: Luciferous at February 7, 2006 1:35 PM

OJ, of all your terse and spot-on post-article comments, this is one of the best. Masterfully stated.

Posted by: Jorge Curioso at February 7, 2006 2:56 PM

UVM & UMO! NOW HEAR THIS ... NOW HEAR THIS...
The Red Cross knows what they're doing.

Posted by: Genecis at February 7, 2006 3:06 PM

Gen, wadda you know.

Posted by: erp at February 7, 2006 3:30 PM

Correction: anal sex reverses that achievement.

Posted by: ghostcat at February 7, 2006 4:23 PM

You're just excretophobic!

Posted by: Robert Duquette at February 7, 2006 9:41 PM

I've read that roughly 1/3 of male homosexuals do not engage in anal sex, and that 1/3 of heterosexuals do. While the former is a small absolute number, the latter is a large one indeed. Even assuming an order of magnitude overstatement on the hetero side, that's more activity than in the gay commmunity.

Posted by: ghostcat at February 7, 2006 9:49 PM

If you stay with a single partner, it doesn't matter what you do to each other, does it? Indiscriminate promiscuous behavior more than makes up for small numbers, which is why all the appearance of these exotic diseases correlate with certain populations, like "sex workers" and male homosexuals.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at February 7, 2006 10:55 PM

ghost:

It's also wrong. Gays deny it even to themselves and heteros think doggy-style is anal sex.

Posted by: oj at February 8, 2006 12:04 AM

You mean it's not?

Posted by: ghostcat at February 8, 2006 12:38 AM

Dogs have puppies, no?

Posted by: oj at February 8, 2006 12:41 AM

heteros think doggy-style is anal sex

Wow. I thought I was naive.

Posted by: Robert Duquette at February 8, 2006 9:21 PM
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