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• Five-Year-Old Catches STD From Dad's Towel?

  Reasons you shouldn't sleep with a prostitute. A. Your wife will hate you. B. Your name will be all over town for getting caught with a hooker. C. You might catch something and pass it on to your kid. For one Australia Dad, the answer is all of the above. His then 5-year-old daughter was removed from the family home in 2006 when she was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease. He admitted to consorting with a prostitute in Bali, but said he never touched his daughter inappropriately. The dad claims she contracted the disease by using the same towel. Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 02:58 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Cheating, affairs, herpes, Jeanne Sager, STD, pubic lice, towel, crabs, spouse, straying, infection, sharing food, scabies, cold sore

• Party with the Pox, but Don't Say We Didn't Warn You

  I can’t help feeling like a freak of nature. “Nobody gets chicken pox twice,” they all say. Umm, sorry to disagree, but I did.   In fact, I’m one of a relatively large group of Americans who scratched their way through two bouts of the scaly spots. A 2006 report by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed some 13 percent of us have double the suffering. Read More... Posted Sep 19 2008, 04:04 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: vaccinations, virus, shingles, herpes, Jeanne Sager, pox parties, skipping vaccines, zoster, varicella, chicken pox twice

• Down with “The Herp”: 1 in 4 New Yorkers Has Herpes

  Hey New Yorkers, I got a fun and quick game for ya. Gather up three of your friends. Now take a good look at the circle of you. One of you has herpes. See, wasn’t that fun? According to  the New York Health Department, over a quarter of the Big Apple’s denizens has got the magic touch. Now you might be saying, “Oh they must be including cold sores as herpes.” Nope, that 26% number is all gential herpes.  This is compared to a national average of…      Read More... Posted Jun 13 2008, 11:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: condoms, teen pregnancy, New York, abstinence, STDs, safe sex, herpes

• Pre-eclampsia Linked With Herpes

  In today's continuing coverage of STDs, this next report should raise plenty of eyebrows from now on whenever a new mom discusses preterm birth or high blood pressure during her pregnancy. Researchers in Australia have linked exposure to viral infection -- especially the herpes type -- to both.   Read More... Posted Feb 24 2008, 04:09 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: research study, preterm labor, premature babies, high blood pressure, pre-eclampsia, STDs, herpes, preterm birth