Meanwhile, STDs are far more prevalent than some of these exotic diseases that get talked about when the media needs a story.
I guess genital worts doesn't get mouseclicks like it used to.
The problem is that STI's have a negative connotation regarding one's sexual practices, when they shouldn't, versus e.g. H1N1 is just "bad luck."
Your viewed as dirty, slutty, etc... if you get chlamydia, hpv, gonorrhea, syphilis etc...
Our country needs to get over itself in that capacity. You can be a virgin and still get a STD. My dad told me in the Navy they had a seperate toilet for guys that got the clap because news flash America you can get a STD from a toilet seat. Far as Chagas is concerned...there's been 30,000 cases among IMMIGRANTS out of um i dunno 300,000,000 people in this country. Dosen't seem like that big of a deal.
Are you trying to defend people who contract STIs? That's just stupidity on their part if they don't protect themselves. I chalk them up to the same group who keep pushing out babies left and right, and simply say, "Oops!", every time it happens.
Yes I am actually. There's many ways to contract STI's even if you use protection. No one is at fault. Its just important people be educated and realize treatment options.
You can contract gonorrhea via oral sex, and develop gonorrhea of the throat. Lets be honest here the majority of men do not like to receive oral sex with a condom on.
You can contract giardia and gonorrhea via oral-to-vaginal or oral-to-anal. Most women don't like to recieve oral-to-vaginal with a dental dam on.
Are you trying to defend people who contract STIs? That's just stupidity on their part if they don't protect themselves. I chalk them up to the same group who keep pushing out babies left and right, and simply say, "Oops!", every time it happens.
Yes I am actually. There's many ways to contract STI's even if you use protection. No one is at fault. Its just important people be educated and realize treatment options.
You can contract gonorrhea via oral sex, and develop gonorrhea of the throat. Lets be honest here the majority of men do not like to receive oral sex with a condom on.
You can contract giardia and gonorrhea via oral-to-vaginal or oral-to-anal. Most women don't like to recieve oral-to-vaginal with a dental dam on.
And that would be why you should know your partner well. Can't be too safe.
And that would be why you should know your partner well. Can't be too safe.
I agree 100%. I also think everyone should get full STI screenings every 3-6 months if they are sexually active. But lets face it. Most adults wont go get an STI/HIV screening unless they are displaying symptoms.
Its really funny, because on the first date I've noticed living in Los Angeles. A common question is. "When was your last STI/HIV screening?" Whereas when I lived in San Diego. That was never a first date question. lol. I even have friends who go to the extent to request to see the physical paper results
And that would be why you should know your partner well. Can't be too safe.
I agree 100%. I also think everyone should get full STI screenings every 3-6 months if they are sexually active. But lets face it. Most adults wont go get an STI/HIV screening unless they are displaying symptoms.
Its really funny, because on the first date I've noticed living in Los Angeles. A common question is. "When was your last STI/HIV screening?" Whereas when I lived in San Diego. That was never a first date question. lol. I even have friends who go to the extent to request to see the physical paper results
Wonder why. Those two cities are relatively close, right? Like two or three hours or something? Hmmm...That should be an easy discussion if you actually enjoy the person you're with.
I've only had one scare. First and only one-night-stand in college at age nineteen. The lymph nodes on the inner part of my thighs swelled to the point of discomfort and felt like hard knots.
So, I found myself balling my eyeballs out in a panic at the GYN office thinking, "OMG! I'm ruined!" Never AGAIN!
Our country needs to get over itself in that capacity. You can be a virgin and still get a STD. My dad told me in the Navy they had a seperate toilet for guys that got the clap because news flash America you can get a STD from a toilet seat. Far as Chagas is concerned...there's been 30,000 cases among IMMIGRANTS out of um i dunno 300,000,000 people in this country. Dosen't seem like that big of a deal.
If you're going to catch a disease from a toilet seat (or any other non-living surface), STDs are pretty much the last thing on the list. They're sexually-transmitted for a reason - because they don't grow well anywhere except for very, very specific environments. The "clap" requires blood-enriched media simply to be grown in culture, and other STDs (viruses, chlamydia) aren't even able to replicate without the use of host cells. Bacteria left from minor fecal spray coming in contact with your thighs isn't nearly good enough.
If they weren't so fastidious and difficult, they wouldn't be sexually-transmitted. You'd have to go to some ridiculous lengths to attempt to infect yourself from a toilet seat. I don't know why people still insist on that idea.
That said, I agree with your original premise. There are modes of infection other than sex alone - open wound (blood) contact, for example.
Pestilence watch: Is Chagas the new HIV/AIDs of the Americas?
Posted on June 1, 2012 by The Extinction Protocol
June 1. 2012 – DISEASE – Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it ‘the new AIDS of the Americas.” More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States. The editorial, published by the Public Library of Science’s Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV. “There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living with HIV/AIDS,” the authors wrote, “particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.” Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, “most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities.” Unlike HIV, Chagas is not a sexually-transmitted disease: it’s “caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects,’ as the New York Times put it. “It likes to bite you on the face,” CNN reported. “It’s called the kissing bug. When it ingests your blood, it excretes the parasite at the same time. When you wake up and scratch the itch, the parasite moves into the wound and you’re infected.” -Yahoo
Thoughts?
US News and several other news outlets have already responded to that article. While Chagas is no small problem, it's no HIV "Deadly Chagas affects millions and needs attention, but calling it new HIV is a publicity stunt" -U.S. News
That article is incredibly insulting to every person whose died of HIV/AIDS and who has it. To compare a disease that has a cure vs one that does not baffles me. Chagas can be treated with antiparasitics. While HIV/AIDS can be "managed" there is no cure.
um there's been a few people cured already, haven't been reading much news in the past few years have you?
Pestilence watch: Is Chagas the new HIV/AIDs of the Americas?
Posted on June 1, 2012 by The Extinction Protocol
June 1. 2012 – DISEASE – Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it ‘the new AIDS of the Americas.” More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States. The editorial, published by the Public Library of Science’s Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV. “There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living with HIV/AIDS,” the authors wrote, “particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.” Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, “most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities.” Unlike HIV, Chagas is not a sexually-transmitted disease: it’s “caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects,’ as the New York Times put it. “It likes to bite you on the face,” CNN reported. “It’s called the kissing bug. When it ingests your blood, it excretes the parasite at the same time. When you wake up and scratch the itch, the parasite moves into the wound and you’re infected.” -Yahoo
