We may have just found the real reason Stormy Daniels bailed on her Celebrity Big Brother gig. Researches are now warning that a ‘flesh-eating’ STD is making a comeback after it was found in England.
It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but researchers warn it’s real.
A British woman recently contracted the rare STD that devours the flesh around the genitals. It is spread through sexual intercourse with an infected person.
The STD is called donovanosis, and it can cause genital ulcers and destroy tissue. Donovanosis is an STD caused by a bacterium called Klebsiella granulomatis. The disease is rarely seen in the United States, with only about 100 cases reported per year, mostly among people who have traveled to or are from areas where the disease is common – tropical areas, including parts of India, Papua New Guinea, the Caribbean, central Australia and southern Africa.
The disease can start out as small, painless sores (ulcers) on the genitals. The sores slowly get larger and form raised, red bumps that bleed easily. As the disease spreads, it can destroy genital tissue and cause the skin around the area to lose color.
The disease is spread through sexual intercourse, but in very rare cases, it may also spread through oral sex. Donovanosis is treatable with antibiotics, which usually need to be taken for several weeks. Treating the disease early can reduce the risk of complications.
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Stormy asked for more money and the show said NO. Got nothing to do with an STD.
I think that was an attempt at a joke. It struck me as odd as well. I don’t believe Stormy has a souped up, flesh eating VD. The only VD she is known to have is the one where The Donald’s lawyers have attached their meathooks on her bank accounts to ruin her financially because she dared to open her mouth about fucking him up the ass with her strap-on and sucking on his C-cup titties. 🙂
Kudos for humorous start to post…fail on getting word out about this STD and the threat it poses to the industry.
It’s easily mistaken for Chlamydia.
Treating it as Chlamydia makes it more resistant to antibiotics.
Very few clinics in the UK and less in other affected areas have equipment to do testing. The US only counts confirmed diagnosis but it isn’t even considered for testing until treatment for resistant chlamydia has failed. Once the FDA approves a DNA test for this it will be easier to test and will have a corresponding increase in reported cases.
Partner notification is 60 days back because they don’t know enough about this STD until they have more data.
https://www.cdc.gov/std/tg2015/donovanosis.htm
Granuloma inguinale is a genital ulcerative disease caused by the intracellular gram-negative bacterium Klebsiella granulomatis (formerly known as Calymmatobacterium granulomatis). The disease occurs rarely in the United States, although it is endemic in some tropical and developing areas, including India; Papua, New Guinea; the Caribbean; central Australia; and southern Africa (383-385). Clinically, the disease is commonly characterized as painless, slowly progressive ulcerative lesions on the genitals or perineum without regional lymphadenopathy; subcutaneous granulomas (pseudobuboes) also might occur. The lesions are highly vascular (i.e., beefy red appearance) and bleed. Extragenital infection can occur with extension of infection to the pelvis, or it can disseminate to intra-abdominal organs, bones, or the mouth. The lesions also can develop secondary bacterial infection and can coexist with other sexually transmitted pathogens.
Diagnostic Considerations
The causative organism of granuloma inguinale is difficult to culture, and diagnosis requires visualization of dark-staining Donovan bodies on tissue crush preparation or biopsy. No FDA-cleared molecular tests for the detection of K. granulomatis DNA exist, but such an assay might be useful when undertaken by laboratories that have conducted a CLIA verification study.
Treatment
Several antimicrobial regimens have been effective, but only a limited number of controlled trials have been published (383). Treatment has been shown to halt progression of lesions, and healing typically proceeds inward from the ulcer margins; prolonged therapy is usually required to permit granulation and re-epithelialization of the ulcers. Relapse can occur 6–18 months after apparently effective therapy.
Management of Sex Partners
Persons who have had sexual contact with a patient who has granuloma inguinale within the 60 days before onset of the patient’s symptoms should be examined and offered therapy. However, the value of empiric therapy in the absence of clinical signs and symptoms has not been established.