According to an expert magazine, a previously rare sexually transmitted disease, bacterial infection of the anus and genitals, has been found among gay people in Europe.
Sexually transmitted diseases and lymph swelling (LGV)
It was caused by an invasion strain of chlamydia.
According to the 2003 issue of sexually transmitted infections, LGV, known as a rare disease in less developed countries, began to spread to Europe in April, when an outbreak was found among 100 gay people in Rotterdam.
This is now a \"big problem\" among gay people in Europe, the magazine said \".
Outbreaks broke out in Belgium, Germany, France and Sweden, and in January the UK reported the first batch of 24 cases, mostly from sexual health clinics in London, rising to 34 in the medium termFebruary.
There are other cases in the United States, New York, San Francisco and Atlanta.
The cases in Britain are gay, and 17 of them are infected with HIV.
Four others were infected with hepatitis C.
\"LGV is likely to have been present for some time in men who have sex with men (
A man who has sex with a man)
\"In the UK, many cases have not been confirmed,\" the Wall Street Journal said . \".
LGV is believed to be spread through unprotected anal, anal and shared sex toys.
Symptoms include anal ulcers, rectal inflammation, pain and bleeding, constipation and abdominal pain, and sometimes fever. A three-
A weekly course of antibiotics is usually enough to treat infection.
However, if the first phase of ulcer is not treated, there will be chronic infection, which may result in skin pouch, abscess and anal stenosis
Anal stenosis-
Surgery may be needed, London-
According to The Wall Street Journal. -
AFP theme: Sextransmitted-
Disease in the United States