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A swimming pool, a toilet seat, a towel: the questions always return. We list per route what the research actually says.
Most men with trichomonas notice nothing. That makes the infection easy to miss and easy to pass on. Here is how testing...
Yellow-green, sometimes frothy discharge is the classic picture, but many women with trichomonas notice nothing. How to...
Gardnerella vaginalis often shows up in a lab result with no explanation. It is not an STI, but the bacterium that takes...
Thin greyish white discharge with a fishy smell is the classic picture. We explain what each symptom suggests, what it f...
Three causes of changed discharge that look alike, but only one is an STI. We compare smell, colour, itch and acidity, a...
Which STIs are there? We list the nine most common STIs in the Netherlands, with how often each one occurs and how you c...
Vaginal warts come from low-risk HPV. The cervical smear looks for high-risk HPV, so it does not find them. Read what th...
Genital herpes cannot be cured, but it can be managed well. Read what antivirals realistically achieve, what they cannot...
Genital warts come from HPV, usually type 6 or 11. An STI test does not find them. Read how to recognise them, how you g...
Herpes often passes on without anyone seeing a thing. Read which routes actually transmit it, which ones are myths, and...
HSV-1 stopped being a lip-only virus long ago. Read what separates HSV-1 from HSV-2, why the old split broke, and what t...