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  • 2013-04-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Blue Waffle Disease (en)
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  • In April 2013, New Jersey city councilperson Kathy McBride became the object of some derision when, according to the Trentonian, she reported at a city council meeting that she had received an alarming call from a constituent who wanted to know what was the City of Trenton doing about an epidemic that’s called the Blue Waffle Disease? McBride was mocked for taking the issue seriously and not recognizing that she had apparently been taken in by an April Fool's prank. References to Blue Waffle Disease hit the Internet around March 2010 when an image (disturbing image warning) of scabbed, blue-tinted labia was circulated along with the claim that the image pictured a type of vaginal infection resulting from a sexually transmitted disease (a condition which was supposedly common enough that it had been identified and given the slang name blue waffle disease): Whatever the origins of the photo, blue waffle disease is a bit of fiction and not a known symptom or result of any type of STD-related infection. As reported in the Women's Health Foundation blog, Dr. Amy Whitaker, an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at the University of Chicago Hospital, said of the widely circulated blue waffles image that: Columbia University's Go Ask Alice! Health column also notes that blue waffle disease is a hoax: (en)
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