Posted on 12/21/2004 9:23:52 PM PST by LouAvul
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A rare and potentially serious sexually transmitted disease has turned up in a few patients in San Francisco, prompting health officials to issue a public warning.
The disease is called lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV. It's a form of chlamydia, a common sexually transmitted infection, but LGV can cause scarring of the genitals and colon and cause lymph glands near the groin to swell or burst.
While the illness is rarely seen outside of poor, tropical nations, it has recently turned up in the Netherlands. Doctors in Rotterdam reported 92 cases among gay men there during a 17-month period ending in September. A few cases have also been reported in Belgium, France, Sweden and Atlanta.
Four patients, all gay men, have been treated for LGV in San Francisco so far, and none had traveled to the Netherlands. For that reason, health officials believe there may be other cases in the city that have not yet been detected.
(Excerpt) Read more at modbee.com ...
Does you Health Care Coverage include Exploding Groins!?
Than Franthithco. Now that ith a thurprithe!
Now that sounds painful, and I'm NOT a man!
Exploding crotch?
It's a vaild expression of a lifestyle worthy of our tolerance and affirmation.
So Let's all acknowlegde the Exploding-Groin-Americans and don our ponchos.
LGV is not a form of chlamidia. It is not rare and is not a new disease. It is known and has been occuring since at least the sixties when I first saw it in a ER. This is a sensationalist article. The "exploding" is nothing more than an absess like lesion draining. It is scarring and ugly to see and used to be seen in low lifes and those who were pretty dirty and didn't see a doc till late. It is associated with heterosexual transmission as well as homosexual transmission.
20 Years ago Reagan "failed to stop AIDS".
20 years later Bush is gonna "fail to stop exploding groins".
But it looks like someone from the Netherlands has been 'bumming' around San Francisco.
But maybe, just maybe, the gays that transmitted it travelled to San Francisco? HMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm?
LOL!
GMTA!
Note the word: RESURGENCE - AP screwed it up. And the Modesto Bee created the sensationalist headline.
I'd suggest you write to the Modesto Bee with your information. E-mail ModBee: metro@modbee.com.
in San Fran, who woulda thunk it?
Well now, there ya go.
It's a fag disease.
Nothing for me to worry about, since I do not cavort with queers and I'm monogamous, being married to a woman, I say again, a woman, to whom I have vowed to spend the remainder of my life with, until death do us part, as has she, before God.
Plus, I'll never go to San Fran again.
Although it'll p.o. me to know that my tax money, somehow, will go to treating these perverted, disgusting, disease ridden boils on the buttocks of humanity.
May a pox befall them all.
(Oh, that's right, there's already been a pox upon them; that's what this story is all about.)
Well said and thank you for some light on the subject. The lamestream media have been at it again.
Yes. Thank you. They are simply a part of an alternative lifestyle.
Awesome! I hope it runs rampant.
And just how much money are we going to have to waste on finding a cure for this?
Never thought about it. Ever. Ugh.
You two are such homophobes. Simple tolerance is not enough. You need to embrace change, even if it involves exploding groins. /sarcasm :-)
Wonder how the libs will spin this? Also, I'd be curious to see how much attention is paid to this in the MSM, and in sex ed classes.......
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