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