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For more information please see: [[Bestiality and Sweden]]
 
For more information please see: [[Bestiality and Sweden]]
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== Sweden and amebiasis ==
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[[Image:Ehistolytica05.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Amebiasis]] is a disease caused by the one-celled [[parasite]] [[Entamoeba Histolytica|Entamoeba histolytica]].]]
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In 2006, the ''The American Society of Tropical Medicine'' reported:
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{{cquote|[[Amebiasis]] is defined as the infection by Entamoeba histolytica that results in dysentery or amebic abscess. First discovered in 1875 by Fedor A. Lösch, this infectious agent is known to be common in developing areas, although local contamination cases have been described in developed countries such as [[France]] and [[Sweden]].<ref>[http://www.ajtmh.org/content/75/3/565.full PREVALENCE AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION OF E. HISTOLYTICA AND E. DISPAR IN THE VENDA REGION, LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA]</ref>}}
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Amebiasis and [[proctitis]] are both illnesses associated with [[gay bowel syndrome]].<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref> 
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Amebiasis can cause proctitis which increases the risk factor of [[HIV]] infection.<ref>http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/001139.htm</ref><ref>[http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/470936_4 Medscape - New Look at "Gay Bowel Syndrome"]</ref>  In 2006, the ''[[The Medical Journal of Australia]]'' reported:
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{{cquote|High rates of intestinal [[parasite|parasitism]] are found in [[Homsexuality|MSM]] [men who have sex with men] throughout the world.<ref>[http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/185_08_161006/sta10803_fm.html Stark DJ, Fotedar R, Ellis JT, Harkness JL. ''Locally acquired infection with Entamoeba histolytica in men who have sex with men in Australia.'' MJA 2006; 185 (8): 417]</ref>}}
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In 1981, the Swedish medical journal ''Lakartidningen'' published an article entitled ''The "gay bowel syndrome" and amebiasis as sexually transmitted diseases in Sweden''.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6895540 The "gay bowel syndrome" and amebiasis as sexually transmitted diseases in Sweden - Lakartidningen. 1981 Aug 26;78(35):2924]</ref>
      
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