New venereal disease just in time for pride month

The patient was a man in his thirties who visited the doctor because he developed a rash on his penis, thighs and buttocks after having multiple male sexual partners in the weeks prior.

Doctors are sounding the alarm over the spread of a highly contagious rare fungal infection that spreads through sex — after treating a man who developed a rash on his penis, thighs and buttocks.
The New York patient is the first documented case of the fungus being passed through sexual contact.
The infection, which is a rare type of ringworm, has been described by the New York University experts as a 'potential public health threat'.
Ringworm — sometimes referred to as 'jock itch' when it affects the groin — is a common mold-like parasite that lives on the body and is spread via contact with an infected person.
The condition can be extremely hard to cure, often taking months to treat with multiple medications and therapies.
After taking a skin biopsy of his rash, he was diagnosed with tinea pubogenitalis, a rare sexually transmitted form of jock itch.
While ringworm has been observed on the groin before, researchers said this is the first instance in which tinea pubogenitalis had been transmitted to the area through sexual contact.
The condition is caused by the trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII) fungus and cases have been on the rise throughout Europe.
Thirteen were reported in France last year, mostly in men who have sex with men.
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