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Bad bachelor: Worried about a disease... no, not the virus

‘Do fish get STIs?’ (Shutterstock)

I am seated at the third floor reception of a doctor’s office. I keep trying to read this article in one of those health magazines you find in good doctors’ offices (the piece is about ‘Corona Virus’) but my eye keeps drifting to the orange and golden fish in the reception-area aquarium. ‘Do fish get STIs?’ I wonder.

For a fortnight, I have been suffering from painful urination – but what has finally driven me to this doctor’s office is unusual discharge from my manhood. While everyone else is fearing a virus called corona, I’m wondering if I have contracted gonorrhea – and I have every reason to be worried.

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