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Be Aware... HAVE YOU HEARD?... Meningococcal bacteria in Los Angelesconfused_smile
LelaCruz See my TER Reviews 927 reads
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Officials in West Hollywood are warning about the very dangerous & very contagious "meningococcal infection, a bacteria-caused illness that can lead to potentially deadly meningitis."

Please take a few moments to read:

http://www.weho.org/index.aspx?page=23&recordid=2086

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9063246

***The article says this bacteria can be transferred via saliva!  Everyone please be aware... and hopefully it's not truly an outbreak and just some isolated cases :( ***

xoxo
Lela

BigPapasan611 reads

...pharmacies in West Hollywood (see link).  I plan on blending in by playing Babs and Liza on my iPod.

Related Link: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/13/following-death-of-weho-man-healthcare-group-...

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Businesses495 reads

Similar cases have happened before.  

2005: http://www.bcmj.org/bc-centre-disease-control/new-cases-meningococcal-group-c-infections-gay-men-bc
2012: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/new-york-s-meningococcus-scare-outbreak-in-gay-community.html

Interestingly, the common denominator for all three articles is gay men (nothing against gay people whatsoever).

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pdnlr15399 reads

Posted By: Businesses
Similar cases have happened before.  
   
 2005: http://www.bcmj.org/bc-centre-disease-control/new-cases-meningococcal-group-c-infections-gay-men-bc  
 2012: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/new-york-s-meningococcus-scare-outbreak-in-gay-community.html  
   
 Interestingly, the common denominator for all three articles is gay men (nothing against gay people whatsoever).
Does that include those who see ts?

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SoCalSrchAgain404 reads

I'm not a health care professional but my guess yould be yes . . . . Maybe even HELL YES!!!!!

 

Posted By: aadman
 
   
Posted By: Businesses
Similar cases have happened before.    
     
  2005: http://www.bcmj.org/bc-centre-disease-control/new-cases-meningococcal-group-c-infections-gay-men-bc  
  2012: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/new-york-s-meningococcus-scare-outbreak-in-gay-community.html  
     
  Interestingly, the common denominator for all three articles is gay men (nothing against gay people whatsoever).
   
 Does that include those who see ts?

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BigPapasan492 reads

...college campuses regularly until kids started getting vaccinated before going off to college.In fact, a student at the Univ. of Wisconsin just died of meningitis:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/uwmadison-student-remains-hospitalized-with-meningococcal-disease-sf9gv24-202507351.html

Meningitis is caused by bacteria and kids in dorms are in close quarters, sharing utensils, so it's easily transmitted.

It's also transmitted by saliva from kissing, something not limited to gay people.

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Businesses327 reads

warning "sexually active gay men" in particular.

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EasyGoing4U354 reads

Many refuse to take it

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