Anyone n get or spread monkeypox, but a “notable actn of s” the latt global outbreak are happeng among gay and bisexual men, the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn said Monday.
Contents:
- OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD
- AS MONKEYPOX S GROW, SO DO FEARS OF A RETURN OF GAY BLAME AND STIGMA
- STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
- THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD
* another gay disease *
Anyone n get or spread monkeypox, but a “notable actn of s” the latt global outbreak are happeng among gay and bisexual men, the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn said Monday. “Some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right now, but by no means is the current risk of exposure to monkeypox exclively to the gay and bisexual muny the US, ” said Dr.
“Anyone, anyone, n velop [and] spread monkeypox fectn, but … many of those affected the current global outbreak intified as gay and bisexual men. So while we are seeg some s among men who have sex wh men, this is not a gay disease, ” WHO adviser Andy Seale said Monday. Feral and state health officials are vtigatg an outbreak of mengocl disease Florida primarily fectg men who intify as gay, bisexual or men who have sex wh of Tuday, at least 24 s have been nfirmed and seven people have died, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and outbreak is so severe that the feral health agency is llg "one of worst outbreaks of mengocl disease among gay and bisexual men U.
AS MONKEYPOX S GROW, SO DO FEARS OF A RETURN OF GAY BLAME AND STIGMA
At least 24 s and 7 aths have been nfirmed a mengocl outbreak among gay and bisexual men Florida. * another gay disease *
Although the disease has been primarily intified the gay and bisexual muny, there is currently no evince that is a sexually transmted fectn. Certa people are at higher risk for beg fected, cludg those who live crowd plac or have HIV, but is not a so-lled "gay disease, " Ch-Hong said. "In fact, more people who are not gay get mengocl fectn.
"Ch-Hong said the risk to the public is low bee mengocl outbreaks tend to be regnal and typilly do not spread om state to he urged people to follow the CDC's advice, which is that anyone who intifi as gay, bisexual or men who have sex wh men gets a mengocl vacce if they live Florida or plan on travelg to Florida.
STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
Sexually Transmted Diseas (STDs) have been creasg among gay and bisexual men. * another gay disease *
José Romero, director of the CDC's Natnal Center for Immunizatn and Rpiratory Diseas, said a ntued, "Bee of the outbreak Florida, and the number of Pri events beg held across the state g weeks, 's important that gay and bisexual men who live Florida get vaccated, and those travelg to Florida talk to their healthre provir about gettg a MenACWY vacce. Get Vaccated: Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men have a greater chance of gettg Hepatis A, Hepatis B, and HPV. Then, a further ment that set different alarm bells rgg, the bullet potedly warned men who have sex wh men to “seek immediate medil attentn” if they tect signs of the sglg out has sparked fears that gay and bisexual men, who appear to acunt for most of Europe’s monkeypox s so far, are once aga danger of beg stigmatized as rriers of an exotic and ighteng disease, jt as they were durg the AIDS 200 nfirmed monkeypox s have been reported more than 20 untri outsi Ai, where the vis is mostly found — cludg the first likely se California, Sacramento County, earlier this week.
Although health officials are keepg a close eye on the outbreak, the seload is mcule pared wh the 528 ln ronavis fectns of the COVID-19 as reports of the disease grab headl, along wh suggtns that the spread uld be lked to a huge gay pri event Spa’s Canary Islands, off the ast of Ai, some LGBTQ people and anizatns are bracg for a Germany, where the Nazi regime once sent homosexuals to ncentratn mps, officials say there are already ments onle vilifyg the gay muny, wh some llg the vis “gaypox. ” A piece of graffi pated si a Berl tra read: “HIV and monkeypox = gift to gays. “For some the msage quickly beme clear: ‘Only gays get this.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
Although the monkeypox vis n affect anyone, some gay and bisexual men are worried about beg once aga brand as rriers of an exotic disease. * another gay disease *
(Sa Schuldt / DPA) On Tuday, German Health Mister Karl Lterbach tried to clear up misunrstandgs about the outbreak, sayg at a news nference Berl that was not the start of a new panmic and that monkeypox was not an ailment that afflicted only gay and bisexual men. “It’s te that certa homosexual men — for example, sex workers — are now more affected, ” said Lterbach, who had been cricized for earlier sglg out men who have “anonymo sex” as beg pecially at risk. “It’s really important to avoid panic and stigmatizatn, ” said Mark Ulrich, a spokman for Germany’s Lbian and Gay Feratn.
“Yet that’s exactly what a lot of gay men are seeg right now the language om the health mister and Robert Koch Instute. Issued a jot statement Thursday nmng the “e of racist and homophobic language” wh regard to the monkeypox outbreak.
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WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
CDC Fact Sheet: What Gay, Bisexual and Men Who Have Sex wh Men Need to Know About Sexually Transmted Diseas * another gay disease *
Sex between men was crimalized om the outset of the foundg of morn Germany 1871, a sectn of the legal known as Paragraph Nazis zealoly persecuted gay men, shippg 5, 000 to 15, 000 to ncentratn mps, where they were forced to wear pk triangl as part of the mps’ prisoner classifitn system. Even after World War II, more than 50, 000 men were prosecuted for gay sex unr Paragraph 175, which was not repealed until nvictns were nullified by parliament 2017.
That same year, Germany legalized same-sex marriage, one of the last major Wtern and Central European untri to do so (civil unns, but not marriage, were already allowed) like Berl and Cologne are now home to vibrant gay scen and huge pri celebratns. The pal has had a popular gay mayor, Kls Wowere, and former Chancellor Angela Merkel appoted Germany’s first foreign mister to e out as gay, Guido Wterwelle, 2009. ”Nohels, some worry that the spread of monkeypox uld be weaponized by homophobic segments of society.
THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health. * another gay disease *
“The qutn is whether homosexual and bisexual men will once aga have a kd of ‘igt’ [‘yuck’] label attached to them that will somehow value them jt like back the 1980s wh AIDS, ” wrote Bach, the newspaper lumnist. “There’s a fear that certa groups will see this as a wele opportuny to say, ‘Look, homosexuals have brought upon a new disease, ’” add Weismantel of the Munich AIDS support group.