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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.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 25 2018, @12:58PM (3 children)
Only if you choose to make huge assumptions into what is written in TFS. There is nothing there that makes such an implication.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @02:18PM (1 child)
There is nothing in TFS that implies the patient had direct contact with anyone from one of the countries mentioned (either in one of the countries, in the UK, or when traveling to another country). Nor is there mention if she was a virgin, or even a rape victim.
See how easy that is? Any assumptions or conclusions are speculation at best.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 25 2018, @02:26PM
I think that you have just made my point.
(Score: 2, Informative) by RandomFactor on Saturday August 25 2018, @06:35PM
Without making any speculation on such things, I would point out that this statement "There is nothing there that makes such an implication" would typically be accurate no matter what the reality of the situation.
Sanitization of news that doesn't align with the preferred views of the day is one of the reasons for the rise of alternative media.
In this case however I would be surprised if that was in play at all. More likely very little more information was provided in the FOI request due to privacy requirements around medical information. Think pages of single line items like "Patient, female, 15-25 years, Southport region. Donovanosis" and everything else is just related information used to build that one line item into an article.
This is borne out at the end of TFA where they state:
"Chemist-4-u.com contacted hospital trusts nationwide to find out how many diagnosis of STIs there had been, the age of people diagnosed, what sex and what region of the country they live in "
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