Posted on 03/12/2015 5:01:32 AM PDT by massmike
Public health officials across the West Coast are urging medical professionals to look out for cases of ocular syphilis a sexually transmitted disease that can cause blindness after two potential cases in Los Angeles recently.
With more than a dozen cases most of them among gay men reported between Seattle and San Francisco and now potentially two in Southern California, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling for medical professionals to do more.
These new cases highlight the importance of ongoing, regular check-ups for sexually active individuals who feel they may be at risk, particularly men who have sex with men," said AHF President Michael Weinstein in a statement.
Some of the patients also are HIV positive, including six in San Francisco. In Seattle, two of the patients went blind.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
West Hollywood?
“With more than a dozen cases most of them among gay men reported between Seattle and San Francisco and now potentially two in Southern California, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling for medical professionals to do more.”
Yes, and whatever you do, don’t change your behavior.
I do not even want to know what they do to get this.
Another “gift” from the EXEMPT 113th Congress,
working with, every day enabling, and complicitly
helping Obola-the-undocumented-Moslem-Terrorist-pRes_ _ent
bring incurable disease from foreign countries
into the Homeland by evil Quartering?
Yeah, just send them $$$$$.
probably came in with all those illegals. Lets see, thats polio, paralization, measles, syphllis . . . and sure there is more i am missing. we are officially a waiting room in a third world ghetto.
did any of the blinded men have hairy palms?
If you don’t stop that, you’ll go blind.
Venereal disease is so anti-gay
Bill Clinton will take precautions.
“Reagan’s fault!”
If you don't want to get that--->stop doing this.
Coming soon to a blood bank near you....
Screwing their eyes out ...
Time to bring back the Wasserman. For marriage and regularly.
Remember seeing two men who were cared for in homes. Both were born syphilitic, both had no eyes and IQs under 10. Complete care.
Visual AIDS?
Well, when ya start seeing actors in dirty movies wearing condoms and safety glasses, it’s REALLY gonna kill the mood... ;)
Reminds me of the two Angels in Sodom that had come to remove Lot, they blinded those men at the door,
Hmmmm ... Somehow, I find this completely unsurprising.
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