A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI).

Practice safe sex, that’s my motto. (I haven’t had a sex in over a decade)

  • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    24 days ago

    What’s up with diarrhea and explosions in the US? The rest of the world knows you’re full of shit but still… Too graphicallly, coprophilous, filthy.

    • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      23 days ago

      Hygiene cost the billionaires money… hence less hygienic conditions.

      The US is regressing at an alarming rate because if profit

      • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        But I thought keeking poor immigrants in concentration camps was the solution to all problems. If it’s not then… schadenfreude?

  • none [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    24 days ago

    idk i am inclined to be suspicious of the US CDC, which is struggling to hold on to its own existence, coming out with news alerts about gays being depraved shit eaters. Especially with all the other infectious disease swirling around, this is very convenient for them to highlight.

    political causes like climate change, factory farming, decreased inspections and lax enforcement… not to blame at all here, it is only a matter of personal choice.

    A lot of the more solid work in this article is actually from the UK, and being transposed to the US without direct replication, which may or may not be correct. This probably reflects the reduced ability of the US scientific establishment to conduct its own investigations due to declining empire and resources being redirected to buying donald trump bitcoins or whatever.

    I found one hint of a more comprehensive understanding:

    “When the UK’s national treatment guidelines stopped recommending the use of [azithromycin] to treat gonorrhea infections,” they wrote, “the emergence of azithromycin resistance in Shigella slowed down.”

    And followed some of the sourced links, such as Sexually transmitted diarrhoea spreading rapidly among some networks of gay men in the UK, study finds

    “This isn’t just one form of sexually transmissible diarrhoea. This is multiple overlapping variants emerging that are all quickly becoming resistant to the drugs we use to treat them,” said Baker. “It’s highly likely that if you contracted your Shigella through sex you require different treatment to someone who contracted it through travel.”

    Researchers believe this resistance partly results from antibiotic treatment or preventative prescriptions for other sexually transmitted infections.

    “Our evidence suggests that the variants of Shigella transmitting in sexual networks were actually getting resistant against treatments for other STIs, like gonorrhoea, so people need to remember that when they’re taking antibiotics they’re treating their whole body,” said Baker.

    So actually the problem is exacerbated (maybe caused?) by gay men being rigorous adherents of regular STI screening and treatment. But instructing the patients to “remember” this is stupid. What action is atteched to “remembering”? Proposing that people skip treatment for gonorrhea? Or what? Ultimately these are considerations for those who develop the treatment protocols, there is not anything at all here suggesting any effective individual intervention or even prevention. This kind of issue is always coming up with antibiotics. Despite being framed as a result of individual sexual activity, it is of course a collective political problem.

    A question for an expert would be to what extent recognition of such an issue was delayed by public health being so much beleaguered and distracted in defending itself against various attacks.

    I find it very strange that this article only makes the vaguest hints at the international threat caused by Shigella in general and antibiotic resistant Shigella in specific, despite how easily I can find information about this. How are these two phenomena related? The WHO has been advocating the development of a Shigella vaccine for some years, and that page (which hasn’t been updated since 2022 at the latest) lists several prototype vaccines in development. The vaccine effort is specifically responding to the resistance in recent years, which is only adding to the 270,000 deaths (in 2016) at baseline caused by this infection. So presenting Shigella as a gay american problem looks wrong. More likely, it is a reflection of the larger global situation.

    • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      Eating ass… and pure hygienic conditions during sex in general.

      Doesn’t help that explosive shots are very easy to catch.

      • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        Right I always forget about people who put their mouth there. Sadly knowledge from college on the fecal oral pathway completely removed that kink from my brain as a possibility. Not to mention just personal preference.