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Soma Mandal, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician with a specialty in women’s health. Blue waffle disease is an internet hoax and not a real sexually transmitted infection (STI). No ...

IDK about you, but it seems like a new sexually transmitted disease pops up every other day-so when a new one reportedly started making the rounds in 2010, it didn't seem that far-fetched. The one in ...

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 ...

Blue waffle disease is not a real sexually transmitted infection (STI). It's an old internet hoax that was concocted by pranksters who claimed that the vagina and labia (vaginal lips) could turn blue, ...

The term blue waffle disease began around 2010 when an image of blue-tinted, pus-covered, lesion-filled labia circulated online. People said it resulted from a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

IDK about you, but it seems like a new sexually transmitted disease pops up every other day—so when a new one reportedly started making the rounds in 2010, it didn't seem that far-fetched. The one in ...

TRENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- A City Councilwoman in Trenton was placed in an embarrassing situation this week, after she asked what the city's Health Department was doing about a disease that turned ...

How Did the Blue Waffle Myth Start? This hoax started many years ago, when someone posted an online image of a bright blue vulva (the outside of a vagina). According to the anonymous poster, it was ...

The "blue waffle disease" stands out as a prime example of how quickly a hoax can gain traction in the world of internet myths and misinformation. Since 2010, the fictional condition has been falsely ...