• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Yup. I remember my professor saying that if a 12 year-old comes positive for giardiasis, it’s from sexual assault.

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      giardiasis, is a parasitic infection from contaminated food or water? do you mean gonnorhea, i did look it up just in case, and its usually oral-anal route, or MSM(men sex with men)(i assume the penetrator gets the parasite from the recievers poop particles. seems quite difficult to get it for the Victim.

      there was a SVU episode where they had a little girl that was infected with gonnorhea, she was under 12 yo.

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        12 days ago

        My memory is faulty, but I remember hearing that it’s not usually associated with vaginosis precisely because its route of infection is fecal-oral, so its presence in a young girl’s reproductive system is a big red flag.

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          seems less likely the more i try to find it, its possible the teacher said gonnorhea instead. because fecal-oral, and anal sex are the only ways, its going to be hard to infect someone through the urethra of men to a victim, since the infectious cysts only appears in the feces, giardia solely reproduces in the intestinal track. when i looked up gonnorhea and children, there was quite a few papers on it.

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            12 days ago

            This was a proper parasitology class reviewing amebas. It’s possible it could’ve been a related organism, though, but the characteristic “eyes” on the parasite stuck with me with that sentence because I think she had it up on the projector.

            Now I’m curious about what exactly she said, I wish I could rewind time.