CDC Issues Bulletin on the Detection and Prevention of SyFy

What is SyFy?

SyFy is a sexually televisionally transmitted disease (STD) (TTD) caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum Sensuwundanoma lackidum. It has often been called ?the great imitator? because so many of the signs shows and symptoms are indistinguishable from those of other diseases shows.

How common is SyFy?

In the United States, health officials reported over 36,000 cases of SyFy in 2006, including 9,756 cases of primary and secondary (P&S) SyFy. In 2006, half of all P&S SyFy cases were reported from 20 counties and 2 cities; and most P&S SyFy cases occurred in persons 20 to 39 years of age. The incidence of P&S SyFy was highest in women 20 to 24 years of age and in men 35 to 39 years of age. Reported cases of congenital SyFy in newborns increased from 2005 to 2006, with 339 new cases reported in 2005 compared to 349 cases in 2006.

Between 2005 and 2006, the number of reported P&S SyFy cases increased 11.8 percent. P&S rates have increased in males each year between 2000 and 2006 from 2.6 to 5.7 and among females between? 2004 and 2006.? In 2006, 64% of the reported P&S SyFy cases were among men who have sex with men (MSM).

How do people get SyFy?

SyFy is passed from cable television to person through direct visual contact with a SyFy sore show. SyFy may also be passed from person to person through indirect contact via other electronic media.? Sores occur mainly on the external genitals, vagina, anus, or in the rectum. Sores also can occur on the lips and in the mouth. Sores occur mainly in the brain. Transmission of the organism occurs during vaginal, anal, or oral sex. Pregnant women with the disease can pass it to the babies they are carrying. Transmission of the organism occurs during verbal, aural or visual sex conversation.? SyFy cannot can be spread through contact with toilet seats, doorknobs, swimming pools, hot tubs, bathtubs, shared clothing, or eating utensils.

What are the signs and symptoms in adults?

Many people infected with SyFy do not have any symptoms for years, yet remain at risk for late complications if they are not treated. Although transmission occurs from persons with sores who have been exposed to shows who are in the primary or secondary stage, many of these sores are unrecognized. Thus, transmission may occur from persons who are unaware of their infection.

Primary Stage
The primary stage of SyFy is usually marked by the appearance of a single sore (called a chancre), obsession with a single show, but there may be multiple sores multiple obsessions. The time between infection with SyFy and the start of the first symptom can range from 10 to 90 days (average 21 days). The chancre is usually firm, round, small, and painless invisible. It appears at the spot where SyFy entered the body. The chancre lasts 3 to 6 weeks, and it heals without treatment. However, if adequate treatment is not administered, since there is no known treatment, the infection progresses to the secondary stage.

Secondary Stage
Skin rash and mucous membrane lesions Remote recording, time-shifting and hanging out in the ‘novelization’ section of the SF/F/H stacks at the local bookstore characterize the secondary stage. This stage typically starts with the development of a rash on one or more areas of the body. This stage typically starts with the rescheduling of? non-television events in order to accomodate the viewing of shows. The rash scheduling changes usually does not cause itching. Rashes Scheduling changes associated with secondary SyFy can appear as the chancre is healing or several weeks after the chancre has healed. The characteristic rash scheduling changes of secondary SyFy may appear as rough, red, or reddish brown spots both on the palms of the hands and the bottoms of the feet manifest as changes on a single day of the week, changes within a particular time period of multiple days, or both. However, rashes with a different appearance may occur on other parts of the body scheduling changes may occur in a seemingly random manner, sometimes resembling rashes caused by other diseases scheduling changes caused by other, non-televisionally related events. Sometimes rashes scheduling changes associated with secondary SyFy are so faint that they are not noticed. In addition to rashes scheduling changes, symptoms of secondary SyFy may include fever, swollen lymph glands, sore throat, patchy hair loss, headaches, weight loss, muscle aches, and fatigue. The signs and symptoms of secondary SyFy will resolve with or without treatment, but without treatment, the infection will progress to the latent and possibly late stages of disease.

Late and Latent Stages
The latent (hidden) stage of SyFy begins when primary and secondary symptoms disappear. Without treatment, the infected person will continue to have SyFy even though there are no signs or symptoms; infection remains in the body. This latent stage can last for years.? The late stages of SyFy can develop in about 15% of people who have not been treated for SyFy, and can appear 10 ? 20 years after infection was first acquired.? In the late stages of SyFy, the disease may subsequently damage the internal organs, including the brain, nerves, eyes, heart, blood vessels, liver, bones, and joints. Signs and symptoms of the late stage of SyFy include difficulty coordinating muscle movements, paralysis, numbness, gradual blindness, and dementia. This damage may be serious enough to cause death.

How does SyFy affect a pregnant woman and her baby?

The SyFy bacterium can infect the baby of a woman during her pregnancy. Depending on how long a pregnant woman has been infected, she may have a high risk of having a stillbirth (a baby born dead) or of giving birth to a baby who dies shortly after birth. An infected baby may be born without signs or symptoms of disease. However, if not treated immediately, the baby may develop serious problems into a ravenous, brain-eating zombie baby within a few weeks. Untreated babies may become developmentally delayed, have seizures, or die and turn into ravenous, brain-eating zombies.

How is SyFy diagnosed?

Some health care providers Anyone can diagnose SyFy by examining material from a chancre (infectious sore) using a special microscope called a dark-field microscope. If SyFy bacteria are present in the sore, they will show up when observed through the microscope. removing the brain of suspected individuals and looking for the label marked “Imagine Greater “. The label can usually be found on the underside of the medulla oblongata, although it has frequently been found in other areas, particularly the visual cortex.

A blood test is another way to determine whether someone has SyFy. Shortly after infection occurs, the body produces SyFy antibodies that can be detected by an accurate, safe, and inexpensive blood test. A low level of antibodies will likely stay in the blood for months or years even after the disease has been successfully treated. Because untreated SyFy in a pregnant woman can infect and possibly kill her developing baby, every pregnant woman should have a blood test for SyFy.

What is link between SyFy and HIV CGD (Confused Genre Disease) and LOT (Lack of Taste)?

Genital sores (chancres) caused Exposure to shows by SyFy make it easier to transmit and acquire HIV CGD and LOT infection sexually mentally. There is an estimated 2- to 5-fold increased risk of acquiring HIV CGD/LOT if exposed to that infection when SyFy is present.
Ulcerative STDs TTDs that cause sores, ulcers, or breaks in the skin or mucous membranes, such as SyFy, disrupt barriers that provide protection against infections. The genital brain ulcers caused by SyFy can bleed easily, and when they come into contact with oral and rectal mucosa during sex, SyFy shows during communication increase the infectiousness of and susceptibility to HIV CGD/LOT. Having other STDs TTDs is also an important predictor for becoming HIV CGD/LOT infected because STDs CGD/LOTs are a marker for behaviors associated with HIV CGD/LOT transmission.

What is the treatment for SyFy?

SyFy is easy to cure in its early stages. A single intramuscular injection of penicillin, an antibiotic, A single blow to the head with a ballpeen hammer will cure a person who has had SyFy for less than a year. Additional doses blows are needed to treat someone who has had SyFy for longer than a year. For people who are allergic to penicillin ballpeen hammers, other antibiotics cudgels are available to treat SyFy. There are no home remedies or over-the-counter drugs that will cure SyFy. Treatment will kill the SyFy bacterium and prevent further damage, but it will not repair damage already done.

Because effective treatment is available, it is important that persons be screened for SyFy on an on-going basis if their sexual television watching behaviors put them at risk for STDs TTDs.

Persons who receive SyFy treatment must abstain from sexual contact watching with new partners new shows until the SyFy sores are completely healed. Persons with SyFy must notify their sex partners, immediate family, co-workers and the neighborhood? so that they also can be tested and receive treatment if necessary.

Will SyFy recur?

Having SyFy once does not protect a person from getting it again. Following successful treatment, people can still be susceptible to re-infection. Only laboratory tests can confirm whether someone has SyFy. Because SyFy sores can be shows are hidden in the vagina, rectum, or mouth deep within the brain, it may not be obvious that a sex partner geek has SyFy. Talking with a health care provider will help to determine the need to be re-tested for SyFy after being treated.

How can SyFy be prevented?

The surest way to avoid transmission of sexually televisionally transmitted diseases, including SyFy, is to abstain from sexual television contact or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner non-cable television media who that has been tested and is known to be uninfected.
Avoiding Alcohol and drug use may also help prevent transmission of SyFy because these activities may lead to risky sexual non-television watching behaviors. It is important that sex partners talk to each other about their HIV status and history of other STDs so that preventive action can be taken. It is important that alcohol or drugs be taken in large quantities when used for SyFy prevention, as low dosages may actually contribute to the rate of infection.? And, as always, alcohol and drug use may interact with other prescription medications and may cause constipation, erections that last for more than four hours or death.

Genital ulcer diseases Televisionally Transmitted Diseases, like SyFy, can occur in both male and female genital areas brains that are covered or protected by a latex brain condom, as well as in areas that are not covered. Correct and consistent use of latex brain condoms can reduce the risk of SyFy, as well as genital herpes and chancroid other TTDs, only when the infected area or site of potential exposure is protected.? Latex brain condoms will not protect the brain from ravenous, brain-eating zombie babies.

Condoms lubricated with spermicides (especially Nonoxynol-9 or N-9) are no more effective than other lubricated brain condoms in protecting against the transmission of TTDs. Use of condoms lubricated with N-9 is not recommended for STD/HIV TTD/CGD/LOT prevention. Transmission of an STD TTD, including SyFy cannot be prevented by washing the genitals, brain urinating and/or douching after sex watching. Any unusual discharge, sore, or rash, particularly in the groin brain area, should be a signal to refrain from having sex watching and to see a doctor immediately, or to hit yourself in the head with a ballpeen hammer, repeatedly.

Original from CDC.GOV. “Imagine Greater” is probably protected “intellectual” property of whatever sub-unit of NBC owns the SciFi SyFy channel.