An eleven-year-old girl bathed in the Lake Mirror of Venus in Italy and contracted gonorrhea pond and caught a venereal disease. The Daily Mail writes about this.
It is clarified that the incident took place on the island of Pantelleria off the coast of Sicily in the Mirror of Venus Lake, whose waters are fed by volcanic hot springs.
The child swam in the pond for an hour. with my parents and sister, and two days later I felt a painful burning sensation. The girl was taken to a doctor who diagnosed gonorrhea. After that, the rest of the family was also tested for the infection, but the results were negative. The schoolgirl received antibiotic treatment and fully recovered.
“The public must understand that people bathing in frequently visited shallow thermal pools are at risk of exposure to pathogens from other people,” said one expert and noted that the high the temperature of the “almost stagnant” water in shallow water and the acidic organic matter contained in some lakes can contribute to the survival of a number of bacteria, among which are the causative agents of sexually transmitted diseases.
Earlier in November, a 47-year-old tourist from the Netherlands went to the toilet while on a safari tour in Africa and returned home without part of his genitals due to the bite of a poisonous cobra. It is clarified that while traveling through one of the reserves, the man went to the toilet and did not notice a poisonous snake hiding in the bowl of the toilet bowl – a cobra bit the Dutchman in the genitals.