That is really not a place you want anything medical called “ringworm” even if it isn’t actually a worm.
They really need to rename it. Pretty sure most people assume it’s a parasitic infection.
Don’t do BJJ ancient Greek style, got it.
Ancient Greek style is fine. If you use enough olive oil, the fungus just slides right off.
Hearsay has it it’s been found in the Southeastern seaboard as well.
Was Fernando Tatis Jr in NYC recently?
They made this big to-do just a couple of years ago about renaming monkeypox because they didn’t want to offend men who have sex with men, and now here we are with some fungal infection still being called “ringworm”.
There’s no worm! No parasite of any kind. Really ridiculous name. Also, it can be caused by a number of different fungi, so it’s not even really all the same infection.
I believe mpox was, sadly, renamed because racists and their use of “monkey”. I think that was more the issue over men who have sex with men. “Ringworm” isn’t a slur though lol
That hadn’t occurred to me. I assumed it was relating gay men to monkeys that was the problem. You’re probably right, though.
