Meningitis Spreading Via Anonymous Sex in NYC

[BlueGin]

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.

The disease is spread by “prolonged close contact with nose or throat discharges from an infected person,” the health department said in a September 2012 statement after the death of a patient. While vaccination can help prevent new infections, “people that have been in prolonged close contact with infected people need to see their health-care provider immediately to receive preventive antibiotics,” the department added.

Meningitis Spreading Via Anonymous Sex in NYC - ABC News

 

[waltky]

Scary!

 

[waltky]

Another deadly disease to thank the gay community for...

Los Angeles meningitis victim declared brain dead, STD threat to gay men seen
Brett Shaad, 33, was declared brain dead but remained on life support Friday amid warnings to sexually active gay men about the deadly strain of illness, officials said.

A 33-year-old West Hollywood man who felt sickened by bacterial meningitis earlier this week has been declared brain dead amid warnings to sexually active gay men about the deadly strain of illness, officials said. Brett Shaad was declared brain dead but remained on life support Friday afternoon, said Elizabeth Ashford, a spokeswoman for Shaad's family. She declined to release further details. That corrected a statement made earlier in the day by West Hollywood Councilman John Duran who said Shaad had died and had been removed from life support.

Duran said later that friends who were in Shaad's hospital room since told him that he was declared brain dead. Duran, who saw Shaad last weekend, described the openly gay man as being "robust and healthy" prior to Monday, when he began to feel sick. On Wednesday, he went into the emergency room. By Thursday, he was in a coma. Earlier Friday, officials warned sexually active gay men to beware of the potentially deadly health threat because Shaad's case was detected in Los Angeles County.

Tests were being done to see if the strain of illness is similar to the meningococcal infections that circulated among gay men in New York City and infected 22 people, resulting in seven fatalities, since 2010. "We don't want to panic people," Duran said. "But we learned 30 years ago the consequences of delay in the response to AIDS." The illness could be spread by sex and kissing but not by casual contact.

Shaad attended a major party for the gay community in Palm Springs the weekend of March 30, Duran said. The White Party attracts thousands of partygoers from all over the country for dancing and revelry. However, Shaad's brother Brian Shaad criticized some of Duran's statements as inaccurate. "Brett remains on life support in the hospital. No conclusions have been drawn regarding when, or how, he may have contracted meningitis. We ask for privacy during this incredibly painful period," he said in a statement sent by email early Saturday.

Read more: Los Angeles meningitis victim declared brain dead, STD threat to gay men seen * - NY Daily News

 

[Politico]

I say let Darwin take it's course.

 

[Luissa]

Glad I didn't get laid in NYC.

 

[waltky]

Charges coming down for tainted medicine in meningitis outbreak...

14 charged for roles in meningitis outbreak
17 Dec.`14 — Fourteen owners or employees of a Massachusetts pharmacy were charged Wednesday in connection with a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people nationwide and was traced to tainted drug injections.

Barry Cadden, a co-founder of the New England Compounding Center, and Glenn Adam Chin, a pharmacist who was in charge of the sterile room, were hit with the most serious charges, accused in a federal racketeering indictment of causing the deaths of patients in several states by "acting in wanton and willful disregard of the likelihood" that their actions would cause death or great bodily harm.

More than 750 people in 20 states were sickened and 64 died after they contracted fungal meningitis and other illnesses from tainted steroids made by the company. The steroids given were for medical purposes, not for body building; most received the injections for back pain. Cadden and Chin are charged with causing the deaths of patients in several states, including Michigan, Tennessee and Indiana. The others charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday face charges ranging from mail fraud to the introduction of adulterated and misbranded drugs into interstate commerce.

Carla Conigliaro, the majority shareholder of New England Compounding Center who was arrested at her home in Dedham, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Conigliaro is among several arrested who face charges that tainted steroids manufactured by the pharmacy were blamed for a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people across the country.

Linda Nedroscik of Howell, Michigan, said her husband, John, survived the tainted injection but is still "not well." She said the 64-year-old "still struggles, has nightmares," but she's grateful he's "made it." "It's hard to say it's a relief because it doesn't change anything for us in our physical lives, but it takes a burden off emotionally," she said. Linda Nedroscik said the family is "out a lot of money," and they've been led to believe that there won't be any financial recourse. Still, she said, news of the indictments "is more important."

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[waltky]

Charges coming down for tainted medicine in meningitis outbreak...

14 charged for roles in meningitis outbreak
17 Dec.`14 — Fourteen owners or employees of a Massachusetts pharmacy were charged Wednesday in connection with a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people nationwide and was traced to tainted drug injections.

Barry Cadden, a co-founder of the New England Compounding Center, and Glenn Adam Chin, a pharmacist who was in charge of the sterile room, were hit with the most serious charges, accused in a federal racketeering indictment of causing the deaths of patients in several states by "acting in wanton and willful disregard of the likelihood" that their actions would cause death or great bodily harm.

More than 750 people in 20 states were sickened and 64 died after they contracted fungal meningitis and other illnesses from tainted steroids made by the company. The steroids given were for medical purposes, not for body building; most received the injections for back pain. Cadden and Chin are charged with causing the deaths of patients in several states, including Michigan, Tennessee and Indiana. The others charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday face charges ranging from mail fraud to the introduction of adulterated and misbranded drugs into interstate commerce.

Carla Conigliaro, the majority shareholder of New England Compounding Center who was arrested at her home in Dedham, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Conigliaro is among several arrested who face charges that tainted steroids manufactured by the pharmacy were blamed for a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people across the country.

Linda Nedroscik of Howell, Michigan, said her husband, John, survived the tainted injection but is still "not well." She said the 64-year-old "still struggles, has nightmares," but she's grateful he's "made it." "It's hard to say it's a relief because it doesn't change anything for us in our physical lives, but it takes a burden off emotionally," she said. Linda Nedroscik said the family is "out a lot of money," and they've been led to believe that there won't be any financial recourse. Still, she said, news of the indictments "is more important."

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[irosie91]

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.

The disease is spread by “prolonged close contact with nose or throat discharges from an infected person,” the health department said in a September 2012 statement after the death of a patient. While vaccination can help prevent new infections, “people that have been in prolonged close contact with infected people need to see their health-care provider immediately to receive preventive antibiotics,” the department added.

Meningitis Spreading Via Anonymous Sex in NYC - ABC News

you seem to be discussing an outbreak of MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS------but got some
details wrong--------transmission of the sickness does not
require PROLONGED CONTACT OR SEX ------anyone in contact with an infected person can "catch" it. I can accept the idea that AIDS patients might be more prone to "catch"
it than HIV negative people There is a vaccine

 

[whitehall]

Meet a potential sex partner on the internet and engage in unprotected (violent?) sodomy and then whine about a freaking disease contracted by exposure to body fluids. And the homosexual lobby pretends to be smart?

 

[irosie91]

Meet a potential sex partner on the internet and engage in unprotected (violent?) sodomy and then whine about a freaking disease contracted by exposure to body fluids. And the homosexual lobby pretends to be smart?

I assure you-----the FACT is that sex is not much of an issue in
the contagion of the meningococcal bacterium The meningococcal bacterium is highly contagious------NOT VIA SEX-----it can be contracted with sexual contact----but such a
transmission is rare. SHEEEEESH stop creating a silly
nonsensical issue. The bacteria----a gram negative cocci---can get you with a sneeze-----or via a common drinking glass. IT IS NOT HIV