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why is this being called sexually transmitted. stds generally are exclusively gotten from sexual contact or its way harder to get other ways. that is not so with this disease. saying its an std kinda minimizes it.
Well shit. Wait, I mean—
Hurry! When and where is the next Republican convention? You guys need to help out! LOL... Not LOL. Just damn! Why does "god" keep doubling down on good people?
Just a few weeks ago I read that people in the US are getting diarrhea from salad. I thought it was food related.
/s
Someone just tossed their salad
Stop licking people’s ass you idiots.
Sexually transmitted diarrhea is primarily caused by Shigella bacteria, which spread through fecal-oral contact during sex (especially oral-anal contact).
You're not my supervisor
The sexually transmitted part is kinda just homophobia. The study they cite specifically sought to compare Men who have Sex with Men and everyone else, and came to the conclusion that the sexually transmitted shigella is far more likely among MSM than any other group and is an endemic sexually transmissible illness among MSM, and blames PrEP and PEP (almost exclusive to the gay and bisexual male community) along with higher treatment rates for other sexually transmitted illnesses like gonorrhea among MSM for the rise in resistant sexually transmitted shigella. They also concluded that sexually transmitted shigellosis among MSM is responsible for introducing more infections to the general public.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(26)00227-6/fulltext
Background Shigellosis, caused by Shigella bacteria, is a leading cause of diarrhoeal disease globally. In the last two decades, Shigella circulation in high-income countries has expanded from being a sporadic travel-associated illness to also being an endemic sexually transmissible illness among men who have sex with men (MSM). We aimed to characterise the nature and drivers of this multimodal Shigella transmission in a high-income setting.
And they made a LOT of assumptions to get the results. Basically if they didn't have travel information on a sample, they assumed that it was a non-travel risk. And if they didn't have sex information on a sample, they assumed it was female.
Results S sonnei sequences (n=3514) were classified into three demographic groups based on their potential association with STN (appendix 2 tab 2). Isolates collected on or after March 1, 2020 (85 [2·3%] of 3642) and with missing data on sex (26 [0·7%] of 3557) or age (ten [0·3%] of 3531) were excluded. We assumed that cases with missing or unknown travel data (1795 [51·1%] of 3514) did not have recent high-risk travel10 and that cases with unknown information on sex were female (16 [0·5%] of 3514). We identified 1197 (34·1%) isolates as being from pMSM, 1048 (29·8%) as travel, and 1269 (36·1%) from non-pMSM (949 [75%] female and 320 [25%] male; table; figure 1A; appendix 1 p 8). The urban population centres of London and Manchester had higher proportions of pMSM cases than less populated regions (0·44 [95% CI 0·41–0·46] vs 0·27 [0·25–0·29], Pearson's χ2 test p<0·0001; figure 1B). Antimicrobial resistance against any one of the clinically relevant ciprofloxacin, azithromycin, and ceftriaxone antimicrobials, was highest among pMSM (69·4%, 831 of 1197) compared with antimicrobial resistance among non-pMSM (39·6%, 502 of 1269) and travel cases (48·9%, 512 of 1048; figure 1C; appendix 1 p 9; appendix 2 tab 2).
However, we also found that the intensified transmission among pMSM scaled not only with population size but was also attributable to a greater number of introductions into the population (ie, increased transmission chains). This greater importation of Shigella into sexual transmission networks might reflect increased network density (ie, greater number of sexual contacts among gay, bisexual, and other MSM24) or enhanced biological susceptibility of pMSM to Shigella, possibly associated with HIV (or both).5
In the coming years, it is likely that the spread of sexually transmissible drug-resistant shigellosis will increase. Particularly with the widespread availability of pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis regimens in sexual health practice, including HIV and doxycycline pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis, facilitating sexual behaviours and antimicrobial selection pressure, which can lead to increases in transmission and antimicrobial resistance emergence.18,32,33 It is also likely that our findings of rapid spatial spread and intensified transmission of Shigella among pMSM are occurring for the array of other enteric illnesses that are otherwise known to transmit sexually among pMSM, which might also be increasing.34
It's being primarily spread by gay men, if you'd bother to read the posted link.
NEVER! Ass is my official house of worship 🙏
You can't make me
Username checks out... :D
What could you possibly know about asses? Do Terminators even have asses?
Fecal -oral transmission on cruise ships doesn't happen from eating ass. No one washes their hands any more, that's sooo 2020.
Trump: No! Everybody should kiss my ass! My beautiful great covfefe!
can cause bloody diarrhea, dysentery, fever, vomiting, dehydration, stomach cramps, seizures, blood infections and in rare cases, death.
Especially when they're doing that..
Off topic, but this made me remember about the guy charging $50k an ass to teach Trump's administration how to not wipe after pooping...
Dr. Sean O’Mara, an emergency medicine physician-turned health optimization expert who is followed by RFK Jr. and JD Vance, developed what he calls a “living carnivore diet,” which focuses on grass-fed meat and fermented foods while cutting out sugar, alcohol, and processed foods.
According to O’Mara, the benefits go beyond general health improvements. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” O’Mara told the New York Times Magazine. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” It comes after RFK Jr. was slammed by doctors after chugging 'dangerous' milk with a controversial influencer.
O’Mara, who has followed the plan for about a decade, said the diet has completely changed his own digestion. “I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/rfk-jr-doctor-proper-poops-37527239
“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”
A guy who literally thinks his shit doesn't stink. Fabulous.
