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... A new, casually transmittable infection — a unique strain of bacterial meningitis — has cast a pall over the gay night life and dating scene, with men wondering whether this is AIDS, circa 1981, all over again. Seven men have died in New York City, about a third of diagnosed cases, since 2010. And in the last few months, the contagion seemed to be accelerating. It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why. The city’s best hope to curb the outbreak is to vaccinate as many at-risk men as possible, focusing on those most in...

A PSYCHIATRIST who called Michael Neal the "most evil man" he had met in 20 years urged authorities to lock him up two years ago but was ignored. Neal, a grandfather, formerly of Coburg, is accused of attempting to infect at least 16 men with HIV between 2000 and 2006 while he was subject to Department of Human Services orders not to engage in unprotected sex or attend gay beats. The revelation came as a court heard yesterday that Neal claimed to have organised a "conversion party" in 2005 at which up to 15 men "gang-banged" a teenager to infect...

Senate candidate's exposure brings party disapproval By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist With all due respect to my good friend Boss Norcross and the no-show job scandal rocking the South Jersey machine, the hottest political story in the state involves male genitalia from way up north. I speak of Jim Morrison, the Sussex County lawyer/helicopter pilot/TV personality running for state Senate - not the dead guy from The Doors. Morrison, some of you may know, achieved fame as an openly gay finalist on the ABC reality show The Mole a couple of years ago. He became such a household name...