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The Crazy Backstory Behind Tinder’s New STD Testing Locator
In addition to love and happiness, you can now find your way to STD testing centres on Tinder. Sounds like a weird feature, right? You don’t know the half of it.
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Sorry, Don’t Expect STD-Sensing Colour Condoms Anytime Soon
When the TeenTech Awards announced their 2015 winners last week, news outlets far and wide swooned over the concept of colour-changing condoms that detected STDs proposed by three teenaged students. The idea is brilliant as it is bizarre — but don’t expect to see these in stores anytime soon.
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US Health Officials Blame Hook-Up Apps For Syphilis Spike
The number of syphilis cases is on the rise, and some public health officials think it’s because of Grindr. Well, Grindr and Adam4Adam and, presumably, Tinder and Hinge and OkCupid. These apps all make it easier to find people to have sex with, so naturally they cause more people to get STDs, right? Not exactly.
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A STD Love Story: Gonorrhoea Takes A Piece Of Human DNA Forever
In the first instance of gene transfer between a human host and bacteria, Gonorrhoea was recently discovered to have a human DNA fragment. What the.. how the.. huh?