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LARGE MENGIS OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, CDC WARNS

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A large outbreak of mengocl disease — a potentially adly fectn — has been reported among gay and bisexual men Florida, acrdg to health officials, who are urgg people the populatns to get vaccated agast the disease. The outbreak is primarily affectg gay and bisexual men Florida, cludg people wh HIV, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC).

CDC REMENDS VACCE FOR GAY, BISEXUAL MEN AMID FLORIDA MENGIS SURGE

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— Health officials on Wednday remend that men Florida who have sex wh other men get a mengocl vacce followg one of the worst outbreaks among gay and bisexual men U. History of a bacteria that Centers for Disease Control and Preventn said a statement that there have been at least 24 s and seven aths among gay and bisexual men ed by the bacteria Florida recently.

6 DEAD AMID MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AFFECTG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA: CDC

The CDC also remend that gay and bisexual men travelg to Florida should ask their health re provir about gettg the vacce.

MENGIS OUTBREAKS AMONG GAY MEN HAVE EXPERTS PUZZLED

“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, ” said José Romero, director of the Natnal Center for Immunizatn and Rpiratory Diseas. The CDC said Wednday that they are "remendg gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men get a mengocl vacce if they live Florida".

MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, 2021–23

In a Wednday news release, the CDC said they are "remendg gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men get a mengocl vacce (MenACWY) if they live Florida, or talk wh their healthre provir about gettg vaccated if they are travelg to Florida.

CDC WARNS OF 'LARGE, ONGOG' MENGIS OUTBREAK FLORIDA AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

As s of mengis, a rare and potentially fatal disease, popped up ci natnwi over the past several years, public health officials noticed a trend: many of those fected were gay men. There’s no known medil reason why mengis, which is transmted through saliva, would spread more among gay and bisexual men.

County — excludg Long Beach, which has s own health partment — seven were gay men. There were only 12 mengis s the unty all of 2015, one of which was a gay or bisexual Long Beach, there have been six mengis s this year, half of which were gay men.

Last year there were no mengis s the cy, acrdg to cy, who has tracked the unty’s mengis s for a , said was “pretty strikg” that half or more of the s both jurisdictns were gay men. A man Orange County died after beg fected this year, alarmg many the regn’s gay muny.

CDC URG MENGOCL VACCE FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AFTER FLORIDA OUTBREAK

Who mostly treats gay and bisexual men. “It’s a particular sub-populatn of gay men, ” Gladste said. Centers for Disease Control and Preventn and the New York Cy Department of Public Health lnched a project to vtigate the nnectn between gay men and mengis.

MENGIS S RISG AMONG GAY MEN WH HIV

Robert Bolan, the medil director at the Los Angel LGBT rearch may also nsir whether mengis n be transmted other ways, such as sexual rout that might be makg gay men more sceptible, Civen said.

CDC VTIGAT ‘ONE OF THE WORST OUTBREAKS OF MENGOCL DISEASE’ US HISTORY AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA

The bacteria Neisseria mengidis that leads to mengis is known to lonize the throat and mouth, but rearchers will vtigate whether n also lonize other parts of the body, such as the genals or years ago, there was a siar crease mengis s among gay men L.

Only one of this year’s mengis patients was ’s part of the reason why health officials expand their vaccatn remendatns this week om gay men who are HIV-posive or engage high-risk behavrs, such as havg multiple sexual partners, to clu all gay men.

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