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posted by martyb on Saturday August 25 2018, @06:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the killer-sex dept.

The first British case of a rare flesh-eating sexually transmitted infection has been diagnosed in Southport – England's golf capital and home of The Register's financial and HR office.

The Lancashire Evening Post reports that a woman between the age of 15 and 25 was found in the Merseyside town to be suffering from Donovanosis. That's nothing to do with 1980s Aussie crooner and Neighbours superstar Jason, but rather a sexually transmitted infection that in its later stages can cause genital ulcers that eventually rupture and eat the surrounding flesh.

[...] The diagnosis, made within the last 12 months, is the first in the UK for a disease that is normally only seen in Papua New Guinea, southern Africa, Brazil, and southeast India. Researchers with pharmacy site chemist-4-u.com found out about the case after making a freedom-of-information submission while compiling a study on STIs in the UK.

While "good news" is a relative term when discussing an infection that causes your genitals to be consumed by flesh-eating ulcers, anyone afflicted with the condition will be pleased to know that Donavanosis can be treated with a course of antibiotics and that, when caught early, the flesh-eating part can be avoided.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday August 25 2018, @09:37AM (3 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 25 2018, @09:37AM (#726182) Journal
    I don't suppose the woman who is suffering has been to any of those countries to "fuck little "virgin' girls unprotected'. Perhaps you are reading rather too much into the story to match your own fears or predilections?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @11:08AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @11:08AM (#726200)

    Keep your ad-hominem suppositions to yourself. I obviously wasn't talking about the girl/woman at all, and you know that.

    Someone was in a country where that sickness is endemic. And from that person (man or woman) there is a chain of (many?) people having unprotected sex that finally ends with a british female. That female, according to TFA has a 50:50 chance of being either an innocent 15-year-old girl, or a 25-year-old serial BBC slut, or anything in between, or any combination thereof. We don't know. But there is a very significant probability that another british person was involved in that chain, of all likelyhood a male.

    Who is more likely to bring an STI to Britain: an immigrant who finally scraped together enough money to buy the plane ticket, or a british sex tourist?

    They both exist, you know .... not all brits are angels abroad (I've seen it personally) and not all immigrants are illegal good-for-nothing criminals (no matter what your telly says)

    But noooooo, the first thing the original AC can come up with is "Shut them damn niggers out", or something to that effect. Telling a racist is easy, just watch their reflex actions to anything that remotely mentions "foreign".

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Saturday August 25 2018, @01:06PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 25 2018, @01:06PM (#726221) Journal

      Keep your ad-hominem suppositions to yourself.

      It wasn't ad hominem - it is a very long stretch of the imagination to leap from an STI in the UK to pedophile activity in a country far away. That fact that the connection actually occurred to you at all surprised me. There are numerous more probable, and entirely innocent, explanations than child abuse for the disease arriving in the UK from overseas. Because it occurred to you suggests that it was something that was more to the front of your mind than any of those other explanations. Having a concern for child abuse taking place around the world, and potentially affecting someone you might know and love, is entirely natural. However, in the majority of people it is not so prominent to be the most likely explanation for the transfer of this disease. Possible, but not the most likely by a long margin.

      I obviously wasn't talking about the girl/woman at all

      No, it wasn't obvious at all. TFS makes no speculation of how the disease entered the country. There is no mention of it being brought in by a third party. For all we know - and we don't know anything really - she might have just herself returned from one of the regions where this disease is prevalent, and she might have been there visiting her spouse. Sexual activity between the two of them would be quite natural, and it is even more speculation as to how he might have contracted the disease. So I suggest that the fact that I did not make that assumption based on your statement is perfectly reasonable.

      Telling a racist is easy, just watch their reflex actions to anything that remotely mentions "foreign".

      Now, at first glance, that might appear to be ad-hominem - but as I don't think it applies to anything I have written in this thread I will assume it is just your opinion. So, no need for me to take offence or get excited about anything.

    • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday August 26 2018, @07:57AM

      by Sulla (5173) on Sunday August 26 2018, @07:57AM (#726474) Journal

      Maybe i am American so I just don't understand, but none of the countries entered in TFS are places i would assume are popular for sex tourism.

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