Rain rot is the ‘crusty and scabby’ STI spreading across Europe

The disease is typically found in animals but health officials believe it could be emerging as a sexually transmitted infection (Picture: Getty/Metro)

Catching diseases from animals is rare, but not impossible; you only have to look as far as the Hantavirus outbreak for confirmation of that.

But in an equally unlikely turn of events, cases of ‘rain rot‘ have been increasing among a small number of sexually active men, despite normally occurring in sheep, horses and cows.

Otherwise known as dermatophilosis, the skin cond...