CDC vtigat 'one of the worst outbreaks of mengocl disease' US history among gay and bisexual men Florida | CNN

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• WHY AREN’T GAY MEN GETTG A MENGIS VACCATN?
• LARGE MENGIS OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, CDC WARNS
• OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD
• CDC WARNS OF 'LARGE, ONGOG' MENGIS OUTBREAK FLORIDA AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA, 2021–23
• CDC URG MENGOCL VACCE FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AFTER FLORIDA OUTBREAK
• 6 DEAD AMID MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AFFECTG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA: CDC
• CDC VTIGAT ‘ONE OF THE WORST OUTBREAKS OF MENGOCL DISEASE’ US HISTORY AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA
• CDC REMENDS VACCE FOR GAY, BISEXUAL MEN AMID FLORIDA MENGIS SURGE
• CDC SAYS GAY AND BI MEN FLORIDA NEED THE MENGOCL VACCE, TO KEEP THEM SAFE ‘WORST’ OUTBREAK US HISTORY
• SHOULD WE PANIC ABOUT THE STRA OF DEADLY MENGIS HTG THE GAY COMMUNY?
• IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
• MENGIS VACCATN EFFORT AIMED AT GAY MEN
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

WHY AREN’T GAY MEN GETTG A MENGIS VACCATN?

The rmatn is both troublg and tellg—and prompt to urge all gay and bisexual men, as well as any dividual livg wh HIV, to get vaccated—and do now. Sce then, 27 dividuals have been fected Los Angel, San Diego, Orange, and Ventura unti—most of them gay and bisexual men.

In a 2014 outbreak Los Angel, three gay men their 20s died as a rult of beg fected. So why aren’t more gay and bisexual men gettg vaccated? Gay men are vulnerable the plac we socialize, such as bars, clubs, parti, gyms.

Many gay and bisexual men unrstand all too well what ’s like to worry about ntractg a disease through timate ntact. 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).

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

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. 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.

OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD

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. Centers for Disease Control and Preventn is urgg gay and bisexual men to get the mengocl vacce after an outbreak Florida has led to an crease s. Outbreak primarily affectg gay, bisexual men.

Includ the s is a large, ongog outbreak, primarily among gay and bisexual men.

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) is urgg gay and bisexual men who live Florida or plan to travel the state to get oculated agast mengocl disease rponse to an outbreak. “There is a large, ongog outbreak of mengocl disease Florida, primarily among gay, bisexual, and men who have sex wh men, cludg those livg wh HIV, ” the CDC said a statement. 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".

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.

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

The US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn and Florida Department of Health are vtigatg “one of the worst outbreaks of mengocl disease among gay and bisexual men U. The CDC says the outbreak is “primarily among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men, cludg those livg wh HIV.

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

CDC is remendg that gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men get the mengocl vacce if they live Florida, or talk to their health re provir if they are travelg to the state.

“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. The threat to the general US populatn is low, the CDC says, but there are notably high numbers of monkeypox s among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men. — 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.

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

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.

The CDC also remend that gay and bisexual men travelg to Florida should ask their health re provir about gettg the vacce. “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’s been tryg to warn men Florida or travelg to Florida, particularly those who intify as gay, bisexual, queer or trans, that they need to get a vacce that n prevent them om gettg mengocl disease. There is an ongog outbreak Florida what the CDC scrib as “one of the worst outbreaks of mengocl disease among gay and bisexual men U.

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

The CDC plans to ntue dog a big publicy and tn ph both English and Spanish lol newspapers, through gay media, and on social apps throughout the summer. On the Grdr app, the pany said they are workg wh the CDC and Buildg Health Onle Communi a nonprof that supports gay men’s health, to get the word out about the outbreak. One msage warns ers that gay and bi men Florida are at creased risk for mengocl disease and to seek immediate attentn if they feel any symptoms like a stiff neck, headache or severe flu-like symptoms.

He was movg back to Brooklyn the followg week and had received an urgent msage om his iend who lived there: some gay men had died om a new stra of mengis, a nasty bug that vas your bra and spal rd and headach, neck stiffns, bouts of vomg, and, ocsnally, ath. In San Francis, the ernment was warng gay men to get vaccated if they planned to travel to New York Cy, pecially weren’t too worried—this wasn’t the 80s, when the thori turned a bld eye to the AIDS epimic and dismissed as a “gay disease. ” If the New York Cy Department of Health knew there was a potentially adly plague sweepg the cy, they’d surely shoot the bugger the butt before grew to a gay-killg later, the monster is still alive.

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

(It's unknown how many of the men were gay.

) The Department of Health, after ially only remendg mengis vaccatns for HIV-posive men and gay rints northern Brooklyn, revised their posn last month and said that all men the cy who plan to hook up wh other men should get vaccated. The next day, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis began offerg ee vacc. Here’s who they said should get vaccated:“Any gay man or MSM [man who has sex wh men] who is at least 18 years of age, regardls of HIV stat, and has had timate ntact wh a man they met through a webse (Manhunt, Adam 4 Adam, etc.

CDC SAYS GAY AND BI MEN FLORIDA NEED THE MENGOCL VACCE, TO KEEP THEM SAFE ‘WORST’ OUTBREAK US HISTORY

”This statement leav out the fact that mengis is neher exclive to the gay muny nor spread exclively through sex. Mengis isn’t exclive to gays and treatg as a “gay disease, ” as AIDS was treated the 80s and early 90s, is surely unterproductive and possibly the same, might be a good ia to be a ltle b worried about a adly stra of bacteria that, so far, is disproportnately affectg gay men.

” John Duran, a cy uncilman om Wt Hollywood and one of the few openly HIV-posive policians Ameri, isn’t so sangue and has publicly urged the cy to offer more rourc to gay rints. "It wasn’t until seven aths [occurred] that the Department of Health remend all gay men all five boroughs get vaccated.

”“When I asked over the weekend if there had been any other mengis aths the gay muny, I was told [Shaad’s] was the only one—this wasn’t te, ” Duran said, notg that Rijay Spoon, a 30-year-old real tate agent, was killed by mengis December, a fact that was only publicized this week. “The unty has not been forthg wh givg the rmatn we would need to alert not only the gay and lbian muny, but the muny at large. ”On Tuday, the AIDS Healthre Foundatn stepped to make up for Los Angel’s failure to act, offerg ee vaccatns to gay Angelos.

SHOULD WE PANIC ABOUT THE STRA OF DEADLY MENGIS HTG THE GAY COMMUNY?

“I know there have been crics the ter world and gay muni about the manner which I sound the alarm, ” he said, “but given how savage this fectn is—we have gay men dyg 40 hours [after beg fected]—then ’s really nothg to monkey around wh and send-gus. ”Though Duran fely did get some facts wrong—he ially said that Shaad ntracted the disease at the Whe Party, a major gay event LA—other voic the gay and HIV-posive muni agree that word about this adly stra of mengis needs to spread far and stance, Michael Bror, a blogger for the Huffgton Post’s Gay Voic vertil, enuraged his rears to list rmatn about the mengis outbreak and vacc  Grdr profil.

IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

Via email, he told me, “I was stck by a ment a New York Tim article that said, ‘Many men who are at risk may not intify themselv as eher gay or bisexual, even though they are havg sex wh other men, health officials said. So is hard to reach out to them through gay anizatns, and is hard to get them to e forward to be vaccated.

MENGIS VACCATN EFFORT AIMED AT GAY MEN

”As a survivor the AIDS epimic, Bror worri about the way the gay muny has handled the mengis outbreak. “I believe we need to rekdle that spir of activism, not jt to spread the word about the mengis outbreak, but to reverse the alarmg rurgence of new HIV fectns among gay men, pecially among young gay men, and most pecially among young gay men of lor.

”At the very least, let's be aware of mengis and try to make sure no one else di of this thg—we've got enough to worry ’s where you n fd more rmatn about mengis:For vacc Los Angel: vacc New York vis the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (446 Wt 33rd Street, 7th floor) on the dat:Wednday, April 24, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PMFriday April 26, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PMWednday, May 1, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PMFriday May 3, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM@mchsunrlandMore by Mchell: The Gay Sex Club Next to the Vatin Is the Sadst Place on EarthBety and the PlagueMeet the Bad Moms Club. What Kev Maxen has done, g out as gay, makg him what's believed to be the first publicly out male ach major Amerin men’s profsnal sports, is brave enough.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

A adly mengis outbreak is targetg the gay muny.