Posted on 03/06/2018 3:28:40 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
125 people, including some high school students, have contracted HIV, syphilis or both in one of the largest sexually transmitted infection “clusters” discovered in Milwaukee, health care advocates confirmed to the Journal Sentinel.
“This is an epidemic people are not talking about, and it leads to people taking unnecessary risks,” said Melissa Ugland, a public health consultant who works with a number of local organizations that focus on public health.
There has been no announcement to the general public from the Milwaukee Health Department as of Tuesday.
Fewer than 10% of the 125 people who tested positive are Milwaukee Public Schools students, but health care experts anticipate that the numbers could increase as more people come forward.
A cluster is an aggregation of disease closely grouped in time and place. This cluster was identified as such because the people in it could all be connected, and were in contact with each other during a 12-month, identifiable period, Ugland said.
Most of those in the group are men and 45% were HIV positive, Ugland and other health care advocates said.
Ugland said she did not know which school or schools were impacted by the cluster but she said it could be several.
In a statement, MPS said the Health Department informed the district that the entire city is experiencing an increase in sexually transmitted infections in young people ages 15 to 24.
"Because schools have a significant number of students in the 15-18 age group, we are working with the Milwaukee Health Department, in a collaborative and preventive effort, to share information with young people in middle schools and high schools to keep them healthy and to protect their health," the statement said.
“The cluster was still considered ongoing; they were continuing to try to track down some folks,” Ugland said.
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Wow. Gay men get HIV. I’m shocked!!
Especially abberosexual activity.
*aberrosexual
Frontline Children of Rockdale County
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yux7hVgDPa8
That’s probably nothing compared to the University of Texas in Austin. Our doctor said it’s a cesspool of STDs. The worst in the nation. No wonder they’re so lib and LGBT there. Their brains are eaten up with syphilis.
Sex club or heroin users sharing needles?
Parties and hooking up.
I have an idea to help Milwaukee .
Milwaukee residents. If you don’t do intravenous drugs, and you don’t have homosexual sex, the epidemic will disappear.
Maybe I should be the surgeon?
5.56mm
The Russians stole my “general.”
5.56mm
had heard the term cluster f— did not know it really was something
I suppose it is politically incorrect to note that only disgusting pigs have much to worry about in these matters.
And here I was thinking about moving to Wisconsin for a job.
Not that I would even come into contact with these disease infested cretins, but still.
“” “” Sex club or heroin users sharing needles?”” “”
I bet homos combined with all the above.
“That’s gay...”
Which is best - HIV, syphilis or both?
Somehow it crossed to both 15 and 24 year olds. Think about that.
Lock her up! No diseases to spread.
These guys can go to the doc, get an abortion, and good as new, that’s how it works, right?
Ask jfk, michael douglas, jim carrey, etc
Disgusting! It will spread like wildfire among the public school population.
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