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For Gay Men, a Fear That Feels Familiar (meningitis the new AIDS)
New York Times ^ | May 17, 2013 | ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

Posted on 05/19/2013 12:00:54 PM PDT by reaganaut1

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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 danger: men who regularly hook up with other men whom they meet at parties, bars, clubs and through apps like Grindr. Dr. Don Weiss, the director of surveillance for the city’s Bureau of Communicable Disease, has called it “Russian roulette sex,” because “sooner or later, you are going to come across this organism and be exposed.”

The health department’s own vaccination efforts at several gay bars have had limited success. Men out partying want to have fun, not be told that they may fall prey to a lethal disease by doing so.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aids; gaydeathstyle; gayfilth; gaymeningitis; gaystd; homodisease; homosexualagenda; homosexuallifestyle; homosexuals; immoralbehavior; meningitis; outbreak; publichealth; queer; queeringamerica; riskybehavior; sexualchaos; stds
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To: reaganaut1

Perhaps it should dawn on some of these guys that sticking an open tunnel to your body into the evacuation place of another is not a good idea. Those systems are designed to move one way, not two ways.

The thought of taking someone’s feces and shoving it up the pee hole just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.


81 posted on 05/19/2013 2:44:29 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: nomad
Bacterial Meningitis is transmissible thru other than sexual contact. IF enough of them get it, it can start to spread beyond their groups.

Yep. Exposure to body fluids, especially saliva. According to the CDC article you can also get Listeria monocytogenes by eating contaminated food. Lovely.

Way back in my undergraduate Microbiology program we had a mandatory class taught by a statistician on the mathematics of epidemics. Being horny little buggers we were very attentive when the topic came around to STDs. Simply put, promiscuity kills, and however bad you think the chances are, they're worse.

82 posted on 05/19/2013 2:59:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: reaganaut1

This is not about innocent victims of disease. This is aout mental illness. Being gay is really about being sexually compulsive. Instead of trying to justify their life style, gays need to take a look at why they cannot grow up an exercise some restraint.


83 posted on 05/19/2013 3:00:26 PM PDT by AdaGray
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To: thecodont

Public school personnel has to stop lying to children about sodomy being just like herterosexual sex. It’s not healthy.
It is not a behavior to be promoted to other people’s children.


84 posted on 05/19/2013 3:10:03 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Gay State Conservative
...two-thirds of syphilis cases diagnosed in the country are in homosexual men.

All the more remarkable given that homosexual men are less than 2% of the population.
85 posted on 05/19/2013 3:24:54 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: reaganaut1
It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why.

I do. His name is God and He's not happy.

Those who do not heed His voice are doomed.

86 posted on 05/19/2013 3:43:46 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: reaganaut1

The real disease is sexual addiction. Anyone who continues a behavior despite it being potentially harmful to themselves or others, is considered an addict. Sexual addiction is very harmful and hurtful to individuals, and those close to them. I don’t judge others, but as an experienced adult I have no doubt that EVERYTHING in the bible is true in a very practical sense. The eventual result of sexual addictions is endlessly looking for the next sexual fix, never being satisfied, sexual dysfunction, and disease, being your entire purpose in life. In other words, hell. Your loving Father never wanted that for you. Stay away from porno guys. IT DESTROYS MARRIAGES, and families.


87 posted on 05/19/2013 3:47:30 PM PDT by mgist
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To: reaganaut1
It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why.

You can't declare war on nature and natures God and expect to win. The homos will ALWAYS lose.

88 posted on 05/19/2013 4:22:47 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: SaraJohnson

Comprehensive Sex Education is on its way if it isn’t already implemented in your school system.

http://illinoisfamily.org/topic/?topic=education

This isn’t just an Illinois thing!

To do nothing is to agree with the perversion being inflicted on the youth of America.


89 posted on 05/19/2013 4:30:08 PM PDT by Maudeen (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: reaganaut1

Why the hell are we spending tax dollars and putting effort into trying to vaccinate against this? It is not the government’s (nor my tax dollars) job to protect you from your own dumb ass decisions.


90 posted on 05/19/2013 4:32:06 PM PDT by TheZMan (Buy more ammo.)
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Less than $15k to go!!
Let's git 'er done!!

91 posted on 05/19/2013 4:33:48 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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>> It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why.

Maybe they’re ingesting septic waste? /s

Not like the sexualization of the excremental canal has anything to do with it.


92 posted on 05/19/2013 4:47:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: reaganaut1
I've been saying for years that, even if they find a cure for HIV, that other diseases will come along faster than cures can be found.

The homosexual lifestyle is tailor-made for propagating disease. Anal sex is very effective in transmitting diseases that are poorly transmitted by any other means. Rampant promiscuity means that an infected person will have sexual contact with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of others within the year, passing diseases through the homosexual population at an exponential rate.

93 posted on 05/19/2013 4:53:00 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: TheZMan

Oh, but they need the government(meaning other citizens’ tax dollars) to rescue them from the consequences of their actions like “Kolanda”, the crazy Obama lady:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIw5_a_jI0o


94 posted on 05/19/2013 4:59:12 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: reaganaut1
It has targeted gay and bisexual men, and nobody knows exactly why.
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Nobody knows exactly why? Really?

This author's nose is GROWING! ( fast)

Also..This is a gem.

” It has targeted gay and bisexual men,...”

Bacterial meningitis doesn't just target gay men. It can and **will** infect co-workers, family members, and others that these gays may meet in the community.

95 posted on 05/19/2013 5:08:49 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: reaganaut1
"not be told that they may fall prey to a lethal disease by doing so."

Good. The more dead homo's the better off we as a society will be.

I keep trying to warn my nephew; however, he insist's he's gay and refuses to be celibate.

I can only pray for him.

96 posted on 05/19/2013 5:08:59 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: NoGrayZone

Good. The more dead homo’s the better off we as a society will be.
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Unfortunately, the communicable diseases they carry like TB and meningitis will take down a lot of innocents with them.

Unfortunately, HIV infected homosexuals ( BECAUSE OF THEIR HIGHLY PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL LIFESTYLE) are far more likely than other immune deficient individuals, to be WALKING PETRI DISHES OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES!

I have been preaching this for year. (Yeah! I am shouting. )


97 posted on 05/19/2013 5:13:56 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: NoGrayZone

If you nephew is an active homosexual, personally, I wouldn’t let him near my kids.


98 posted on 05/19/2013 5:14:40 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: PapaBear3625

The homosexual lifestyle is tailor-made for propagating disease.
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I call them, “The Walking Petri Dishes”.


99 posted on 05/19/2013 5:16:05 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: PapaBear3625

Many of those communicable diseases are passed on to those in the health heterosexual community. Meningitis is just one of **many**.


100 posted on 05/19/2013 5:18:13 PM PDT by wintertime
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