“The WHO said the outbreak was largely among men who have sex with men who had reported having sex recently with new or multiple partners.” An earlier article from The Guardian indicated that over 95% of cases are among gay men (no that does not mean no one else can get it; but the numbers are the numbers). This might explain why the disease has been getting a lot of attention in San Francisco but not so much elsewhere. The disease doesn’t seem to be fatal, but can cause extreme pain and has led to hospitalizations for pain management.

Yay. Just what we need. :(

This is partly a PSA, but also me just feeling miserable that there’s yet another disease that seems exclusive to gay men, as if we didn’t have enough of that already. As for reasons why it is more prominent among gay men, that has yet to be explained, though if anyone has any additional information on that, I’d be interested to hear it.

Without going into too much detail, I will say that I have not recently had sex with new or multiple partners.

Topics: health, medicine, sex, homosexuality, emergencies