Wisconsin has seen a 1,450% increase in congenital syphilis cases since 2019, the state's Dept of Health Services reports.
This at a time when the country's premier #STD lab has been shuttered in the devastating cuts at #CDC.
What could possibly go wrong? https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/

Ann Telnaes!
#STD #Trump #Demons

The lab's efforts aren't duplicated anywhere, there's no $ to be made so the private sector won't step in, and this lab is key to fighting anti-microbial resistance.

“To me, this is like a blind man with a chainsaw has just gone through the system and arbitrarily cut things without any rationale.”

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/

Bald ist März und meine nächste #STI-Testung dürfte anstehen. Bei mir sind es sechs Monate. Wie sieht das bei euch aus?

Boosts sehr erwünscht.

According to my source,

CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here:

Make copies and share

#CDC #STD #Health #US #STI
https://web.archive.org/web/20250131223812/https://www.cdc.gov/sti/site.html

#CDC Centers for Disease Control & Prevention sites datasets removed as of 1/31/25 . Not immediately clear what day they were removed: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey; AtlasPlus, which housed #HIV #AIDS, #Hepatitis and #STD information; #contraception page for #healthcare providers; page on ending #gender based #violence; Evidence supporting recommendations for #HPV vaccination harmonization across genders, ages 22 -26 yrs; #Heartdisease death rates by gender, by county https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/health-cdc-websites-data-removed-trump

I have no real desire to watch Star Trek: Discovery.
But one thing that bugged the hell out of me about what I did see was how the Klingons looked like racist caricatures. To me, they made them look like a white man's version of a savage African stereotype. Was I the only one who saw that? Like, it was just as bad (to me) as the Harry Potter movies turning goblins into Protocols of Elder Zion illustrations.
The Disco thing was weird because all they could talk about was how progressive the show was but the villains were the most regressive Star Trek representation since "Code of Honor".

The fact BlueSky shortens to BS feels like an object lesson in how not to name things. The same lesson Paramount/CBS learned with Star Trek: Discovery and the Committee for the Liberation of Terrifying Organisms and Their Rehabilitation Into Society should really have put their finger on earlier.

#BlueSky #STD #RedDwarf

Weil ich heute meinen Hausarzt darüber aufklären musste, warum ich mich vor kurzem habe gegen HPV impfen lassen: für uns, die wir noch nicht regulär in der Pubertät gegen HPV geimpft wurden, kann eine Impfung dennoch sinnvoll sein (sie ist allerdings teuer):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10038021/#

https://www.frauenaerzte-im-netz.de/frauengesundheit/impfschutz-impfungen/impfung-gegen-hpv/

Selbst wenn man bereits Gebärmutterhalskrebs hatte, senkt die Impfung das Rezidivrisiko. #std #hpv #cervicalcancer #prevention

[Correspondence] #Community-based #mpox and #STD #surveillance using discarded #condoms in the global south https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00514-0/fulltext?rss=yes

The current transmission dynamics of MPXV indicate changes in the virus's biological characteristics, human behavior, and clinical presentations, making surveillance particularly challenging in resource-limited countries.

A Daily Pill to Prevent #STI? It May Work, Scientists Say.
A common #antibiotic, #doxycycline, greatly reduced cases of #syphilis, #gonorrhea and #chlamydia when taken every day.
Their study was small and must be confirmed by more research. Scientists still have to resolve significant questions, including whether #STD might become resistant to the antibiotic and what effect it could have on healthy gut bacteria in people taking it every day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/health/doxycycline-sti.html
https://archive.ph/XqC1X

#MEMPHIS y’all need to use those jimmy hats. Don’t be scared, put a rubber on the head!

https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/08/15/greater-memphis-area-ranks-2nd-us-new-hiv-cases/
#std #hiv

Would you rather be immune to STD’s or have free KitKats for life?

#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #KitKat #Immune #STD #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe

https://youtu.be/BGIIZU-NTSs

I'm just so happy right now. I just got done vacuuming (the new kittens make messes, duh). Tomorrow I'm going to a nerd event with my family and my merdaughter's friend, followed by going to a trans board game night with my date from Monday, (hopefully followed by a little smooching). Sunday I have an actual chill day, upon which I plan to cook healthy delicious food and get caught up on #Taskmaster and #StarTrekDiscovery #STD #NotThatKind with my wife and work on my game design.

#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe
#HashtagGames

Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring....

Staying frisky in the later years? Good.
Not using protection? Bad.
My elder brethren, get educated, be safe.

>STDs have risen among adults 55 and older: CDC https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/4564052-stds-have-risen-among-adults-55-and-older-cdc/

#China has a big #STD problem with #supergonorrhea, study finds
#DrugResistant #gonorrhea is a growing problem—one that doesn't heed borders
Study surveyed gonorrhea—Neisseria gonorrhoeae—from around China and found prevalence of #ceftriaxone-resistant isolates nearly tripled between 2017 and 2021. Ceftriaxone-resistant strains made up roughly 8% of the nearly 3,000 bacterial isolates collected from gonorrhea infections in 2022. That's up from just under 3% in 2017.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/super-gonorrhea-rate-quickly-triples-in-china-now-40x-higher-than-us/