{"id":21174,"date":"2022-07-08T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21174"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T21:12:06","slug":"cdc-warns-one-of-the-worst-outbreaks-of-meningococcal-disease-among-gay-and-bisexual-men-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/cdc-warns-one-of-the-worst-outbreaks-of-meningococcal-disease-among-gay-and-bisexual-men-in-u-s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Warns: ‘One of the Worst Outbreaks of Meningococcal Disease Among Gay and Bisexual Men in U.S. History’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael W. Chapman<\/a> – June 27, 2022<\/p>\n

(CNS News)<\/strong> — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a statement that it is working with the Florida Department of Health to “investigate one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history.”<\/p>\n

So far, there have been “24 cases and 6 deaths among gay and bisexual men,” reported the CDC in its June 22 press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meningococcal disease refers to any illness caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis<\/em>, said <\/a>the CDC. “These illnesses are often severe, can be deadly, and include infections of the lining of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis) and bloodstream.”<\/p>\n

The disease is spread to other people “by sharing respiratory and throat secretions (saliva or spit),” said the health agency.\u00a0 “Generally, it takes close (for example, coughing or kissing) or lengthy contact to spread these bacteria.”<\/p>\n

To counter spread of the disease, the CDC is “recommending gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men get a meningococcal vaccine (MenACWY) if they live in Florida, or talk with their healthcare provider about getting vaccinated if they are traveling to Florida.” The also recommend routine vaccination for people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting vaccinated against meningococcal disease is the best way to prevent this serious illness, which can quickly become deadly,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 R. Romero, M.D., director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the outbreak in Florida, and the number of Pride events being held across the state in coming weeks, it\u2019s important that gay and bisexual men who live in Florida get vaccinated, and those traveling to Florida talk to their healthcare provider about getting a MenACWY vaccine,” said Romero.<\/p>\n

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Michael W. Chapman – June 27, 2022 (CNS News) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a statement that it is working with the Florida Department of Health to “investigate one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history.” So far, there have been “24 … Continue reading CDC Warns: ‘One of the Worst Outbreaks of Meningococcal Disease Among Gay and Bisexual Men in U.S. History’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[245,36,22,23,16829,3153,16624,16828,42],"class_list":["post-21174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-cdc","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-epidemic","tag-jose-r-romero","tag-m-d","tag-meningococcal-disease","tag-neisseria-meningitidis","tag-outbreak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21176,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions\/21176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}