Doctors Raise Alarm Over Uncommon Sex Disease

Medical experts have issued a warning note against an uncommon sexually transmitted disease, Mycoplasma genitalium (MG), set develop a great health risk if people are not cautious.

Mycoplasma genitalium is a bacterium very similar to chlamydia that can be detected in fluid samples from the penis, rectum, and vagina causing inflammation of the urethra in men, and inflammation of the reproductive organs (womb and fallopian tubes) in women.

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For women, it also causes pain or bleeding during sex and a burning sensation when urinating, with a watery discharge from the penis and painful urination in men.

However, Paddy Horner, senior lecturer in sexual health at Bristol University and a member of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV said they have launched new guidelines on how to treat and diagnose the disease.

“These new guidelines have been developed because we can’t afford to continue with the approach we have followed for the past 15 years as this will undoubtedly lead to a public health emergency,” Paddy said.

Meanwhile, a sexual consultant Peter Greenhouse, in Bristol instructed people to be more cautious by using condoms as MG appears to be spread by unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse.

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“It’s about time the public learned about Mycoplasma genitalium.

“It’s yet another good reason to pack the condoms for the summer holidays and actually use them,” he advised.

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