Posted on 02/26/2005 9:52:14 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
New York Suburb Has First Case of Rare STD
Sat Feb 26, 6:29 PM ET Health - AP
MINEOLA, N.Y. - A Nassau County man has been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease, the first case in the county and one of seven around the country.
The Nassau County Department of Health has confirmed that the man has Lymphogranuloma Venereum, a form of chlamydia. The disease's symptoms can be serious — rectal pain and bleeding, and sores. The disease can also increase the risk of HIV (news - web sites) transmission.
Two men in New York City were diagnosed in early February with the disease, which can be treated with antibiotics if caught early. All three men are HIV positive, and had multiple partners among other men. Three cases have been identified in San Francisco, and one in Atlanta. Unprotected anal intercourse is the key risk factor for the spread of LGV, which is difficult to diagnose.
In the past two decades LGV has been uncommon in industrialized nations and primarily has been found in the tropics.
But in November, the National Institute for Public Health in the Netherlands said 92 cases of LGV among gay and bisexual men had been reported there over the preceding year, compared to the usual two or three cases a year. Officials said cases also have been found in the United Kingdom.
The LGV cases come at the same time that another New York City man was diagnosed with a case of highly drug-resistant HIV.
Officials in Nassau and Suffolk counties were planning to hold a meeting on Monday to discuss the potential public health threat of LGV as well as the resurgence of high-risk sexual behavior.
Yikes. This sounds painful.
Another preventable disease.
Uhh, the common cold is a "contagious disease." Shall the government put everyone with a cold under house arrest?
Let me guess - Chapaqua?
Having a "common cold" isn't a death sentence for most people. I guess that's the difference, at least to me.
Besides, Billy Jeff doesn't spend that much time in New York as it is. He's been polishing his door knob around Asia lately.
Uhh, the common cold is a "contagious disease." Shall the government put everyone with a cold under house arrest?
You sign up yesterday and start out with the lame comparison .. " perverted homosexual behavior that spreads deadly disease" is as harmless as people passing along a common cold?
You will not last long around here, perhaps you're lost? Democratic underground and the pervert activists and their enablers are down the street and around the corner to the LEFT!
<< The bisexual 'men' are the problem. >>
There is no such thing.
So-called "bisexuals" are those sodomists by any other name who also satisfy their lusts with women.
"She was wealon an dealon just do'in her thing" "She held a pair , but my ace was high,
But how was I to know that all the cards were coming from the bottom of the stack.
If I'd know what she was dealing out , I had dealt it back !
She's got the JACK!!!
YEAH that versions good too. They rock in genral though.
BTTT
Quarantine is still the approach for reportable contagious diseases. Diphtheria, whooping cough, plague and smallpox are reportable diseases for which quarantine is commonly enforced.
HIV should be a reportable and quarantined disease. There is no cure and it generally culiminates in AIDS followed by some wretched disease that attacks the immune compromised individual. Kaposi's sarcoma and certain forms of pneumonia are common. HIV is transmissible, thus infected individuals should be removed from contact with uninfected individuals. That may seem a harsh point of view, but HIV infection is a guaranteed death sentence. It brings astronomical medical bills to stave off the inevitable. The burden for those bills falls on healthcare insurance rates for everyone, hospital billing rates to cover bad debts and taxpayer subsidies. Everyone loses.
Sadly, we live in a time when homosexuality has become a behavior with special protection granted by gutless politicians. The consequence is that HIV/AIDS went wild in the homosexual and injectable drug abuser communities. It is hopelessly out of control in the U.S. Outside the U.S. the problem is worse. Other varieties of HIV that are easily passed through heterosexual sex are rampant in Africa and southeast Asia. Ditto for China.
This latest STD, Lymphogranuloma venereum, produces itchy, fiery blisters in the affected area. My microbiology professor made a pretty big deal about it in 1973. It's not new, just having a big outbreak in a large, very promiscuous group.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
LOL brilliant straw man!!!!! Welcome to FR -try better to blend in. ROTFLMAO
We are.
It's called faithful monogamy.
Works evey time.
Your statement at one time had one meaning -NOW -it could mean anything -in other words it is now meaningless, as it is vague... e.g. one can be monogamous with children, animals, and adults of the same sex or not the same sex with or without a true marriage...
snip...when do we start fighting back?
I believe that we in the 'blogosphere' have already begun to set the stage for the 'fight'.
Think about this: during the Clinton regime and for a time afterward Americans were too traumatized via psyschological bullying tactics to say anything, much less to resist. But the internet has given us a voice and a way to organize. And we've brought down Dan Rather, who thought he was invincible. And we're bringing down the msm as well. And now consider how openly we've been discussing 'gays'; we're saying what we really think and disclosing our anger and frustrations. Resistance begins when people can speak freely and openly.
Aside from the illegality of some of your examples, faithful monogamy still would work to prevent the spread of AIDS.
This is a good example of evolution at work.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.