Tag: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
Mouth cancer rates reach record high: Is oral sex to blame?
Oral cancer rates “have more than doubled in a generation,” according to a new awareness campaign by the Brit-based nonprofit Oral Health Foundation.
Over the past 20 years, mouth cancer diagnoses have skyrocketed 135 percent in the UK. In 2018 alone, seven people died every day from the disease out of a total 8,337 patients in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
US rates are comparable: According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, there are about 54,000 Americans diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer (including the larynx) every year, with at least one patient dying per hour every day, causing approximately 13,500 deaths per year.
The hygiene advocacy group warned people to be aware of the causes of mouth cancer — primarily the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), drinking alcohol and smoking.
Dr. Nigel Carter, chief executive of the OHF, told the Daily Mail, “While most cancers are on the decrease, cases of mouth cancer continue to rise at an alarming rate.”
He added that HPV is considered an “emerging risk factor” compared to “traditional” causes like smoking and boozing. According to their report, HPV causes an estimated 73 percent of oropharyngeal mouth cancers.
It’s not the first time the STI has been linked to cancer in a high-profile way.
Actor Michael Douglas, 75, infamously blamed his throat cancer diagnosis on his fondness for oral intercourse. (Though the actor and husband of Catherine Zeta-Jones, 50, later backpedaled on that claim.) HPV can cause other cancers related to sex acts as well, such as with “Desperate Housewives” actress Marcia Cross, 57, who became an awareness advocate after being diagnosed with anal cancer.
Beyond sex, having more than 10 alcoholic drinks per week causes approximately 33 percent of diagnoses, the OHF reports. Smoking is tied to about 17 percent of cases, while increasing your individual risk of disease by 91 percent.
In the US, the five-year survival rate for cancer in the oral cavity is about 57 percent. Those who live through it could have to do so without a tongue or jaw.
Carter called mouth cancer a “devastating” disease: “It changes how somebody speaks, it makes eating and drinking more difficult and often changes a person’s physical appearance.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/mouth-cancer-rates-reach-record-high-is-oral-sex-to-blame/
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Man confessed to giving STDs to 3-year-old relative
A Texas man has confessed to raping a 3-year-old female relative, leading her to contract chlamydia and gonorrhea, court documents show. Top articles3/5Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t invited to Bernie’s campaign kickoff
Drevon Alexander Perkins, 26, of San Antonio, was arrested Tuesday after the girl’s mother noticed discharge in her diaper and took her to a hospital for observation. A doctor later confirmed she had been infected with two sexually transmitted diseases and a police investigation was launched, according to court records cited by the San Antonio Express-News.
Perkins later allegedly admitted during a polygraph test to raping the girl while he was high on drugs in January, telling investigators he attacked her at his apartment while her mother was working.
Perkins had previously been diagnosed with chlamydia and gonorrhea, court records show.
He remained in custody as of Thursday on $100,000 bond at the Bexar County Jail on a felony charge of super aggravated sexual assault of a child, jail records show. If convicted, Perkins faces a minimum of 25 years in prison, KTRK reports.
The alleged victim is Perkins’ relative, according to KSAT.
HIV-positive hairdresser allegedly cut tips off condoms to infect his Grindr dates
A hairdresser deliberately infected at least four men with HIV after meeting them on gay dating app Grindr — before sending them mocking messages, a court heard.
Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh, Scotland, is accused of embarking on a “cynical campaign” to infect as many men as he could with the virus.
He texted one of his alleged victims: “Maybe you have the fever cos I came inside you and I have HIV, lol. Whoops!”
The court heard Rowe also called one of his victims and laughed over the phone as he goaded the man about his potential diagnosis.
The victim later tested positive for HIV, with a strain of the virus similar to Rowe’s.
Another man Rowe had sex with said he used a condom, but found it discarded in the sink with the end ripped off.
Caroline Carberry QC, prosecuting, told Lewes Crown Court: “He was extremely concerned and upset about this and repeatedly asked Daryll Rowe whether he was clean, which he said he was. That condom did not split accidentally.”
Another alleged victim discovered he had the virus after feeling “feverish and ill.”
Rowe was diagnosed with HIV in Edinburgh in April 2015.
Later that year, he moved to Brighton.
“With full knowledge, putting others at risk, he embarked on what was a cynical and deliberate campaign to infect other men with the HIV virus.
“Unfortunately for some of the men he met, his campaign was successful.
“He had numerous, casual sexual relationships with men he met via Grindr.
“He deceived each of those men into believing he was HIV-negative.
“He reassured the men he was clean and when they insisted on a condom, he deliberately sabotaged the condom.
“Many of them were sent abusive and mocking messages.”
Carberry told the jury that Rowe met eight men in Sussex and two more in the northeast.
“At least four have contracted the virus, others were lucky not to,” she said.
“In all cases, it was his intention to infect those men with HIV.”
Sussex police arrested Rowe in February 2016 after two men were diagnosed as HIV-positive.
He refused to admit being HIV-positive and denied meting with or having sex with the two men.
Rowe was bailed to an address in Berwick, Northumberland.
He was interviewed again when other alleged victims came forward. After being re-bailed, Rowe went missing and police launched a manhunt to find him.
He was discovered living in Wallsend — some 350 miles north of Sussex — under a fake name.
The case, which is due to last six weeks, continues.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/06/hiv-positive-man-allegedly-tampered-with-condoms-to-infect-partners/