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Meningitis outbreaks among gay men have experts puzzled
latimes.com ^ | July 30, 2016 | Soumya Karlamangla

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: gaydisease; gaymen; homosexualagenda; homosexualdisease; memingitis; meningitis; outbreak; saliva
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To: trisham

Yes, they certainly have a weakened system due to their unhealthy, deviant behavior.


21 posted on 07/30/2016 3:11:32 PM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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To: PROCON

Is there any contagion these pervs DON’T spread? They’re walking petri dishes.

Cigarette smoking is a public health hazard and that justifies its regulation by the government. But queer behavior is protected and even encouraged, even though it can be demonstrated that its risks are far greater.


22 posted on 07/30/2016 3:19:08 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It’s not just the diseases. It’s the drug usage, mental illness, physical and sexual violence, and stigma from family and friends.


23 posted on 07/30/2016 3:21:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: miss marmelstein

I imagined you would agree that a woman that does not know of the slovenly practices of gay men is to be admired and appreciated. You are blessed that you haven’t had to consider that up to now.


24 posted on 07/30/2016 3:21:36 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: PROCON

Don’t forget the intake of fecal matter.


25 posted on 07/30/2016 3:22:02 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: PROCON
It's because the meningococcus bacteria are homophobic, bigoted, Catholic or fundamentalist Christian, and probably Republican.
26 posted on 07/30/2016 3:22:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Lord have mercy (50x))
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To: HomerBohn

Could be swapping spit. If it is carried by saliva.


27 posted on 07/30/2016 3:30:14 PM PDT by bytesmith
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There’s another one homosexuals are worried about: antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.


28 posted on 07/30/2016 3:34:16 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: PGR88

:)


29 posted on 07/30/2016 3:37:21 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: PROCON
Romans 1:18-28 NIV:

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.

"Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done..."

30 posted on 07/30/2016 3:46:22 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: PROCON

They use exits for entrances. And will mouth any old thing. And they wonder why they get sick


31 posted on 07/30/2016 3:46:39 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I watched a show about a gay man who listed all the diseases he had gotten from anal sex. He listed all the usual STDs plus about a dozen more. And gays wonder why their life spans are shorter.


32 posted on 07/30/2016 4:11:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: PROCON

the “bingo” award for Dr. Gladstein...or better known as Glad-Seen.


33 posted on 07/30/2016 4:27:43 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: miss marmelstein

Yep.


34 posted on 07/30/2016 4:40:23 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: higgmeister
I don't understand your post. I was up to my ears in the gay lifestyle from the 70s through the 80s. Many of my friends died of AIDs. I remember when we thought it was Poppers that caused death! I visited several of my friends in New York Hospital who were dying - unknown to all of us - of Kaposi skin cancer. It was a complete horror. I knew fairly early on that their life style was contributing to their death. What I didn't know - and am still learning - is that meningitis is also related to their life style. My dear friend - his name was Rodney - may have died from his way of life. He was a lovely man whose private life (very typical of a gay man and a straight woman) was unknown to me.

I wish freepers knew more about the lives of urban gay men, straight women and their relationships.

I will continue to try and educate people on the destructiveness and hatred that gay men bring to western civilization. And that may include freepers’ hero of the month, Milo Yiannopolis.

35 posted on 07/30/2016 4:46:40 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: PROCON

Pavlov’s dog is apparently making the rounds in the gay communities.


36 posted on 07/30/2016 5:04:31 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: PROCON

Not perplexing to those using God given common sense.


37 posted on 07/30/2016 5:26:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

There was, once, no known reason why Kaposi’s sarcoma among other things was turning up in gay men. This doc is s real credit to the profession.


38 posted on 07/30/2016 5:41:24 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: PROCON

Other “authorities” can’t figure out the motive of Muslims who attack infidels with axes while screaming allahuakbar.


39 posted on 07/30/2016 6:06:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: miss marmelstein
Perhaps, yet again, I’ve been naïve about gay men’s life styles...

Please forgive me for perhaps being naive about your statement that yet again, you have "been naïve about gay men’s life styles..." That was apparently not very true.

I wish freepers knew more about the lives of urban gay men, straight women and their relationships.

As a suburban man that spent some formative years on a rural farm in Georgia, I feel you could never educate me about the lives of urban gay men, straight women and their relationships.

I have at least four Gay fb friends right now that I know of, but as I told one about 25 years ago, I could never approve of the lifestyle. I just tolerate the aberrations of the human condition that I have no right or ability to control.

40 posted on 07/30/2016 6:22:08 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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