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Contents:

• 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
• WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
• GAY BOWEL SYNDROME
• COLLECTIVE REVIEWTHE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• SHIGELLA INFECTN AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN
• STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
• GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM)
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• SHIGELLOSIS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: A QUALATIVE ASSSMENT TO EXAME KNOWLEDGE, ATTUS, AND PRACTIC : SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

Each of the enti implited the gay bowel syndrome is nsired separately and epimlogic nsiratns rponsible for the appearance of such a syndrome are examed.

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

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.

WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.

"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. 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. It has bee accepted wisdom most pole circl – as well as schools, ernment, rporate Ameri, and certaly the popular culture – that homosexual behavr is a normal and natural variatn of life.

An creasg amount of state and feral money is beg spent on “gay” diseas, health issu, and programs to unter “gay” domtic vlence. And as legns of ex-gays attt, homosexualy is not an born actual data – readily available and even observable – n be md-bogglg.

She wr, “In the 1970s, physicians were treatg the large number of ndns affectg the lower ttal tract of MSM unr the classifitn ‘gay bowel syndrome. In San Francis, cince of the “Gay Bowel Syndrome, ” as was lled medil journals, had creased by 8, 000 percent after 1973.

GAY BOWEL SYNDROME

As Gabriel Rotello—thor of Sexual Elogy: AIDS and the Dty of Gay Men and founr of OutWeek Magaze—wrote, “sexual brotherhood of promiscuy … any abandonment of that promiscuy would amount to a munal betrayal of gargantuan proportns. Rotello also said, “A stranger to gay culture, unaware of the realy of AIDS, might believe om much of the gay prs that HIV fectn was a sort of elixir that produced high self-teem, solved long-standg psychologil and substance abe problems, and enhanced physil appearance … creatg the subnsc imprsn that fectn—the ‘penalty’ of unsafe sex—is really not so bad after all. O’Leary wr, “Gay bars, gay bookstor, theaters, certa rort muni, and circu parti have tradnally provid venu where MSM uld engage var forms of sexual activy wh numero partners.

*MSM (men who have sex wh men) is the term ed the medil muny when discsg those who otherwise are lled gay or homosexual. The practner mt be prepared to intify a number of fectns wh siar prentatns that may occur sgly or together gay men. Lymphogranuloma venerm penile lns and gual lymphanis heterosexual men, whereas homosexual men are more prone to proctis.

Gay bowel syndrome was first named as an illns 1976 the medil lerature via the journal Annals of Clil and Laboratory Science. The abstract for the 1976 journal article published Annals of Clil and Laboratory Science entled The gay bowel syndrome: cli-pathologic rrelatn 260 s scrib gay bowel syndrome the followg manner:.

COLLECTIVE REVIEWTHE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

The clil and pathologil fdgs a group of 260 homosexual men prisg 10% of a private proctologic practice are reviewed. A clil pattern of anorectal and lon diseas enuntered wh unual equency the homosexual patients is termed the gay bowel syndrome. In 2014, the medil journal Current Opn Infect Disease published a journal article entled 'Gay bowel syndrome': relic or real (and returng) phenomenon?

SHIGELLA INFECTN AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN

Purpose of Review: This article aims to review the term 'gay bowel syndrome', cludg the recent rearch lookg at creased rat of bowel fectns men who have sex wh men (MSM), particularly light of the recent Shigella outbreaks MSM London and New York, and nsirs whether 'gay bowel syndrome' is a syndrome that really exists and is worthy of further rearch and specific treatment, or whether the term ntu to be obsolete and not eful. Bartlett which stated that gay bowel syndrome is a signifint issue regards HIV fectn (In 2004, the Johns Hopks HIV Gui webse also featured a lerature review article about gay bowel syndrome by the John G.

Gay bowel syndrome is a clil pattern of anorectal and lon diseas which occur wh unual equency homosexual patients (the diseas are not exclive to male homosexuals). Sohn and JG Robilotti Jr., who were among the thors of the prevly ced article the Annals of Clil and Laboratory Science wrote the Amerin Journal of Gastroenterology regardg gay bowel syndrome that "It is important to regnize homosexual patients and the ndns to which they are predisposed. Michael Heller, who was a San Francis physician, wrote the Annals of Emergency Medice a article tled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients the Emergency Department.

STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS

that "In recent years, has been regnized that homosexual men are subject to a remarkable variety of lorectal disorrs.

Glen Hastgs and Richard Weber 1993 wrote the followg regardg gay bowel syndrome the peer reviewed medil journal Amerin Fay Physician: "The 1980s brought a regnn of gay bowel disease and s siari to flammatory bowel disease. Michael Heller's medil journal article the Annals of Emergency Medice entled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients the Emergency stat regardg gay bowel syndrome the followg: "Frequently and promiscuy of sexual terurse is probably a major risk factor.

GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM)

Gay men this untry have both higher rat of terurse and many more sexual partners than do eher straight men or gay women.

In 1985, the Medil Journal of Malaysia dited a journal entled Gay men bowel syndrome: A report of parasic fectn homosexual patients:. A September 2010 report of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) clared: "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) reprent approximately 2% of the US populatn, yet are the populatn most severely affected by HIV and are the only risk group which new HIV fectns have been creasg steadily sce the early 1990s.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

However, subsequent attentn and study has been sparse, part attributed to rced equency thought to reflect changg practic by gay men rponse to the HIV epimic.

SHIGELLOSIS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: A QUALATIVE ASSSMENT TO EXAME KNOWLEDGE, ATTUS, AND PRACTIC : SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS

As noted earlier proctis is one of the maladi associated wh gay bowel syndrome and greatly creas the chance of HIV fectn. Although homosexual men practice var sexual practic which may put them at risk, studi report that anal sex n be an important risk factor for the relay of many diseas.

The feral Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) says homosexual men acunted for 65 percent of the nearly 12, 000 s of syphilis the Uned Stat 2007, makg them the “primary driver” of creased syphilis rat overall. In rpect to homosexualy and gonorrhea, Concerned Women of Ameri issued an article entled Health and Homosexualy which stated the followg: "In a study published by the Canadian Medil Associatn Journal 1991, '...