LOS ANGELES — A pornography trade group has called for a nationwide filming moratorium while performers are tested for syphilis and Los Angeles County public health officials investigate a possible outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.
One performer has tested positive, and the performer’s sexual partners are being notified, according to Joanne Cachapero, a spokeswoman for the Free Speech Coalition.
Visit site here
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County health officials are investigating a possible cluster of syphilis cases among adult film industry performers.
The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/PB14XI ) the county Public Health Department has received reports of at least five possible cases in the last week.
Peter Kerndt, director of the county's Sexually Transmitted Disease programs, tells the newspaper officials will make sure the infected individuals are properly treated and try to determine who else may have been affected.
Public health workers are also attempting to find out the original source of the recent cluster.
Kerndt says there was an increase in syphilis cases throughout LA County between 2010 and 2011.
LOS ANGELES — A pornography trade group has called for a nationwide filming moratorium while performers are tested for syphilis and Los Angeles County public health officials investigate a possible outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.
One performer has tested positive, and the performer’s sexual partners are being notified, according to Joanne Cachapero, a spokeswoman for the Free Speech Coalition.
The voluntary, temporary moratorium on production is expected to shutter a multi-billion dollar industry “until the risk to performers in the industry has been properly assessed and all performers have been tested,” the trade association said in a statement.
On Friday, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department announced an investigation into at least five possible cases of syphilis that were reported last week.
Cachapero said the group is calling on all performers, more than 1,000, to be tested. Because the illness can be difficult to detect, the trade group’s medical experts have ordered preventative shots of antibiotics for performers. After performers get the shots, they can go back to work within 10 days, Cachapero said.
LOS ANGELES — Adult performer Dick Delaware, aka Aaron Brink, was defeated in a mixed-martial-arts fight on Friday night at Wild Horse Pass Casino in Chandler, Ariz.
Brink said he tapped out from a guillotine choke 2 minutes, 15 seconds into the second round of the three-round, 210-pound fight with unbeaten Phoenix native Julian Hamilton at Rage in the Cage 158.
Brink (25-22-1), who is from Huntington Beach, Calif., and fighting out of Big Bear, said that he has asked the Rage in the Cage promoters for an immediate rematch with Hamilton (7-0), the local favorite that he believes may have received hometown treatment from officials. Brink dropped Hamilton early in the first round and landed several punches to his head, and it looked as though the fight would be stopped and a technical knockout awarded to Brink.
But when the referee did stop the action, he did so in order to penalize Brink one point for hitting Hamilton behind the head, which is illegal. The halt in the action effectively saved Hamilton from being finished, Brink said.
Read more here