Posted on 03/22/2013 3:00:34 PM PDT by neverdem
New York City health officials are urging some men to get vaccinated against meningitis amid an outbreak that has sickened 22 New Yorkers and killed seven.
The dangerous strain of bacterial meningitis appears to be spreading through sexual encounters between men who meet through websites or smartphone apps, or at bars or parties, according to the City’s health department. More than half of the infected men have had HIV, a virus that attacks the immune system making infections more likely and more severe.
“Vaccination is the best defense,” City health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said in a statement. “I urge all men who meet these criteria – regardless of whether they identify as gay – to get vaccinated now and protect themselves from this disease before it is too late.”
Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the brain’s membranous lining, called the meninges. Early symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting, stiff neck and a rash within 10 days of the infection. If left untreated, the disease can cause severe brain damage and even death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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see what happens when you put your wanker into places it doesn’t belong?
NYC is a festering cesspool!
No, they STILL have HIV. Unless I missed the report about a cure.
RAT scum dying and Im supposed to give a shi’ite?
Hey Bloomy, maybe you better spend more time on these things than you do on Big Gulps and CDs.
Is Blades a new codeword for Poofers?
So, they were men who were infected but no longer have it?
Remember how the *swore* AIDS would break out of the homosexual population and kill us all?
What’s a “blade”?
(Or do I want to know?)
Poofters
get vaccinated now and protect themselves from this disease before it is too late.”
No, don’t promote abstinence, just give them a shot and point them to the nearest public bathroom.
If aides didn’t scare them enough, this won’t either.
Lets ban guns and 16oz slurpys!
Are you referring to homosexuals ? sodomites ? aka anal sex deviants ??
Bastardizing our language is a BIG part of how we've devolved from D-Day to USSA.
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Yes, and I understand CVS and others are demanding their employees disclose their weight and blood glucose levels on a WebMD site or else pay an extra $600/yr in health benefits. But they wouldn’t DARE demand their workers disclose any high risk sexual behaviors, whether they’re gay, straight or switch hitters, engage in.
Hmmm, perhaps a common thread here.
Oh yeah, that’s it.
Hey Bloomdork, why doncha ban gays and save far more lives than with your idiotic sugar ban?
Blades? That is one I haven’t heard before. Since it is bacterial, I assume it applies to what we called butt pirates back in my school days.
Millions of Bats have been dying from White-Nose Syndrome...... hmmmm... having sex with bats?? Seems they would bite.
God’s way of saying, “Bad idea, dude.”
God will not be mocked.
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