Kiss warning due to H1N1 - dilarang berciuman

Berciuman adalah merupakan hal yg wajar dari segi tingkah laku sosial manusia, baik di timur ataupun di barat.
Namun dengan adanya kemungkinan penularan virus flu burung [sars] atau flu babi [H1N1] rupanya perlu untuk merubah tingkah laku sosial ini, jangan sembarangan berciuman baik family kiss [seperti cium kening atau cium pipi] ataupun lover kiss [cium bibir, ataupun french kiss / cium lidah] apalagi cium massal didepan umum.

Makanya suatu departemen kesehatan di Jerman perlu untuk mengeluarkan peringatan untuk tidak berpelukan, berciuman dalam suatu festival musik heavy metal akbar di Jerman untuk mengurangi resiko tertular.

Tapi apakah ini akan effektif ?? karena virus itu kan terbang bersama angin [airborne virus]... kalau emang takut dan kuatir akan penyebaran H1N1 ini mengapa tidak tinggal di rumah saja ?

Belum lagi ada banyak juga resiko infeksi karena ciuman massal


Kiss warning issued for rock festival due to flu
BERLIN (Reuters) - Fans attending one of the world's biggest heavy metal festivals in Germany were asked on Thursday to avoid "hugging, kissing on the cheek, and shaking hands" lest they spread the H1N1 influenza. On its website, the health ministry of Germany's northern Schleswig-Holstein region optimistically advised revelers to restrain from any such sociable behavior so as to minimize the infection risk at the Wacken Open Air festival, which runs until August 1.

It also recommended fans did not share bottles of beer.

"We know that kissing and what have you can't be ruled out," said ministry spokesman Oliver Breuer. "They're just tips."

Stalwart rockers Motorhead, Anthrax and Napalm Death are among the bands due to perform at the three-day festival, which organizers expect to attract about 75,000 fans.

More than 430 people worldwide have died from the flu and more than 94,000 people have been, or are, infected.

(Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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Oral sex and french kissing causes infection

oral sex and french kissing increase infection
- Oral sex and open-mouthed "French" kissing increase the risk of acquiring oral infections of human papillomavirus, or HPV, a study shows.

"Performing oral sex is not without risks," Dr. Maura L. Gillison told Reuters Health.

It is associated with gonorrheal pharyngitis - a sexually transmitted infection of the tonsils and back of the throat that immediately causes symptoms, she noted, and now is associated with mouth HPV infections that are silent "yet may lead to oral cancer 10 to 20 years later."

Gillison from The Ohio State University, Columbus, and colleagues explored whether sexual behaviors were associated with the odds of oral HPV infection in 332 adults and in 210 college-aged men. They found that 4.8 percent of the adults and 2.9 percent of college-aged men had oral HPV infection.

Among adults, the odds of oral HPV infection were significantly elevated among current tobacco smokers and among individuals who reported having either more than 10 oral or more than 25 vaginal sex partners during their lifetime.

Similar risk factors applied to the college-aged men. For them, having at least six recent oral sex or open-mouthed kissing partners were independently associated with increased odds of developing oral HPV infection.

For the 28 percent of college-aged men who reported never having performed oral sex, having at least 10 lifetime or at least five recent open-mouthed kissing partners was associated with a significantly higher risk of developing oral HPV infection.

"Our data suggest that oral HPV infections that could predispose to cancer may be transmitted by very common behaviors such as open-mouth or 'French' kissing," Gillison concluded.

Given that the HPV vaccine does not have any therapeutic value against pre-existing HPV infections, "this may be relevant to the timing of administration of vaccination," Gillison said.

Although the CDC recommends that the vaccine be administered between the ages of 9 and 12 ideally, in practice, she noted, it is often administered to girls between the age of 14 and 16. Oral exposure to HPV may have occurred prior to that age.
SOURCE: The Journal of Infectious Diseases