Posted on 07/30/2016 2:28:20 PM PDT by PROCON
AS cases of meningitis, a rare and potentially fatal disease, popped up in cities nationwide over the past several years, public health officials noticed a trend: many of those infected were gay men.
There’s no known medical reason why meningitis, which is transmitted through saliva, would spread more among gay and bisexual men. Yet New York, Chicago and now Southern California have experienced outbreaks disproportionately affecting that population.
“It is perplexing,” said Dr. Rachel Civen, a medical epidemiologist at L.A. County’s Department of Public Health.
Of the 13 cases of meningitis this year in L.A. County — excluding Long Beach, which has its own health department — seven were gay men. There were only 12 meningitis cases in the county in all of 2015, one of which was a gay or bisexual man.
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Absolutely. Everything I’ve learned about guns and ammo I’ve learned right here. Why shouldn’t the gun & ammo people find out what it’s like to live in the largest city in the USA?
And the residents of suburban Boring can learn from both!
I remember a birth control trick we were told in the 50s (IF the subject ever came up)
Place a dime between the knees. Hold it there.
Sort of a Confuciusism
“Rape damn near impossible...Woman with skirt up can run faster than man with pants down” or along that line
Advice today should be
Just sit down and keep your mouth shut and the chances of contracting AIDs drops tremendously.
In ref to Grandma and her
“Never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow” could be rewritten as
don’t stick things in orifices or veins that aren’t designed to be there.
Exit means EXIT and Enter means Enter....
DON’T ‘enter’ an orifice that is designed for discharge.
“There’s no known medical reason why meningitis, which is transmitted through saliva, would spread more among gay and bisexual men. Yet New York, Chicago and now Southern California have experienced outbreaks disproportionately affecting that population.”
The denial is strong with this one.
Isn't "promiscuous homosexual men" redundant?
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