Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Sex / Rumors The Internet wants everyone to think Atlanta is a filthy herpes factory
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart @gwynnstu on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:54 PM
- WIKIMEDIA
- ALL OF US, BASICALLY
Here's the first version I saw on a site called STR8TMEDIA:
The CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL just released the names of the top 15 cities — with the WORST herpes rates. According to the CDC, the top 5 cities have as high as a 40% infection rate for sexually active young people. DANG!!!15. Norfolk 14. Birmingham 13. Detroit 12. Memphis 11. Nashville 10. Oklahoma City 9. Richmond 8. Baltimore 7. New Orleans 6. St. Louis 5. Newark 4. Milwaukee 3. Chicago 2. Washington, D.C. 1. Atlanta
The problem with herpes is it is easily transferable and it can lay dormant in your system. Some people have it for years and then have an outbreak and think their current person gave it to them when they’ve had it all along. Also, condoms won’t prevent you from getting herpes. It can be transferred any time a person rubs up to another persons sore (which can just look like razor burn, so most the time people are unaware that their partner has it). KNOW WHO YOU LAY WITH. Being in unstable relationships, or hooking up with different people increases the chance significantly. Stay EDUCATED. Stay FAITHFUL. Stay PROTECTED!
Yikes, right? But, as I chopped lines of Valtrex to snort preemptively, I couldn't help but wonder (my internal monologue is basically an episode of "Sex and the City") why the Centers for Disease Control were doing such an awful job controlling disease in the city in which they're based. I also couldn't help but wonder why none of the "articles" on any of these "websites" linked to the "source" of the "information."
This afternoon, a CDC media relations person confirmed my suspicions about the veracity of this list. Basically, it would appear to be total bullshit. "We can't vouch for that information," she said, explaining that their STD division doesn't even collect data on herpes, and the national survey they refer to looks at diseases including herpes, but isn't broken down by city.
This is good news! The bad news: Even if it's not true that we all have sores on our mouths and genitals, no one is going to fuck us ever again. A person named Karmen Tweeted the following comment along with a link to the list: "I'm not fucking anybody in Atlanta. Fuck That!!!"
SEE! Just like a case of the herps, this disinformation campaign isn't going away. Why does the Internet hate us so much?
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It is meaningless to dispute which city is the herpes-est place in all the land. As I know, members of HerpesFish.com has doubled in recent years. Why don't you do something useful to prevent more people getting the virus, but argue for such meaningless topics?
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Geez, if they're going to ripoff plentyoffish.com's name, couldn't they have gone with plentyofherpes.com instead?
The STD counselor on a Herpes support site herpesdateonline. com said herpes doesn't live outside the body for long..and you can not catch it from inanimate objects in a VERY RARE case if someone with herpes uses a towel after the shower and rubs enough of the "virus" off and someone uses it immediately after there is a VERY slim chance of them getting is since the towel is still damp.. but that would be a very rare occurrence.
Don't upset by Herpes. 1 in 4 get STD in USA. Most of people on ==== " herpesdateonline. com" ===== said it is just a minor virus. And they can deal with it during their se life. I am curious to know the details.
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