A stomach bug that can be spread by sexual activity has reached a seven-year high in Kansas.
        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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          11 days ago

          Great so we just shouldn’t warn gay people when they’re a high risk group.

          Very progressive of you.

          • degen@midwest.social
            2·
            10 days ago

            Labelling shigella an std/sti is and has been a homophobic dog whistle. The medical community doesn’t call it that. It’s transmissible but sex is not the primary mode of transmission on top of it being a gut infection and traditionally known as a food-borne illness.

            • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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              10 days ago

              Just because it isn’t primarily transferred through sex does not mean that gay men aren’t disproportionately affected. Amongst adults, gay men are the most likely to be affected by shigella. Children being grimey little petri dishes doesn’t change that fact.

        • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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          11 days ago

          STIs can be passed from mother to infant during childbirth, drastically raising their odds of mortality in postnatal care. Not to mention, it sounds like it transmits via fecal-oral route as well, meaning that it’s going to be hell in a daycare as well.