2024-03-22 16:02:36
disease – Without treatment, this disease can have irreversible consequences on certain organs
A sexually transmitted disease that worries. While infections sexually communicable diseases (STIs) are currently experiencing an increase inEuropean Unionthe European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) alerted on March 7 about the recent development of a disease : lymphogranulomatosis venereum (LGV). Between 2021 and 2022, the number of cases increased by 58%, mainly in France, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands. Here is everything you need to know about this still little-known STI.
Diagnosis by blood test
Venereal lymphogranulomatosis, or Nicolas-Favre disease, is endemic in certain tropical or subtropical regions, but was still rare in Europe before the 2000s, reports TF1 Info. It’s about a infection bacterial “transmitted by anal sex and by practices such as fist-fucking and the use of sex toys or rectal irrigation”, details the ECDC.
For the moment, the data relating to these infections are still insufficient, but it would appear that “the men having sex with men and living with HIV infection” are more vulnerable to this disease. Concretely, the diagnosis is made by analyzing a blood test or sample in the event of symptoms. She fords(…) Read more on 20minutes
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