Posted on 06/02/2017 9:01:09 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
More than 40 people in Los Angeles County and surrounding regions have been diagnosed with mumps,
prompting public health officials Thursday to declare an outbreak and issue an alert to physicians and providers to be aware of it.
In the alert, public health officials said many of the cases were initially misdiagnosed and there was a reliance of using false negative results.
It’s unclear when this occurred. Health officials also did not release the conditions of those who were diagnosed.
A response from Los Angeles County public health officials was not immediately forthcoming Thursday.
But health officials said most of the patients are men who have sex with men, and the majority of the cases were linked to patients being at large venues such as gyms, bars, theaters and nightclubs.
Some of the patients are women and heterosexual men who have social connections to men who have sex with men, health officials noted.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...
Mumps is highly infectious and spreads among those living in close quarters or at social settings.
In March, seven men in L.A. County were diagnosed with mumps as part of two different clusters and occurred in men who have sex with men.
It was unclear if those cases were related to the recent outbreak.
Spreading among gay male population in Los Angelos County
Some of the patients are women and heterosexual men who have social connections to men who have sex with men, health officials noted.
Does this mean that mumps is now can be considered a sexually-transmitted disease?
Not yet
Contracting mumps can be considered a by-product of physical intimacy; sexual activity is not required.
NHL players were getting this over the last couple years. They often are on anti-inflammatory steroids which compromises the immune system.
FYI - MSM (homosexuals) are an immune compromised population. A large number of them will get whatever communicable infection is going around. Vaccines won’t fix their behavior.
Oh the wonder of “Our Diversity!”
Just God’s way of saying: you’re doing it wrong.
Guess what, kids? Vaccines are not immunizations. He who controls the language and all that. Vaccines provide partial immunity for a short period of time. Could be several years.
Mumps is a common childhood illness that isn’t fun but doesn’t kill and getting it in elementary school age is no big deal. When the vaccine effects wear off, the young men then are at risk for becoming azoospermic. Not able to produce sperm.
Expect scores of stories against anti vaxxers, none against the crimmigrants and waves of muslims entering the country full of diseases.
This is the left’s tactic on this issue. And a lot of people on the right including many on fr fall for it.
It can be a lifetime. I had a rubella vaccine in 1980 and a measles vaccine in 1987--a couple of years ago, I was tested and found to still have a protective titer. My medical record says that I don't have to be vaccinated against measles or rubella, ever.
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