KILLER DISEASE STRIKING HOMOSEXUALS
Health officials work to diffuse fears of national epidemic
Health officials are warning sexually active "gay" men about an outbreak of potentially deadly bacterial meningitis in Los Angeles and New York.
The disease has infected 22 people in New York and caused seven deaths since 2010. Health officials in Los Angeles are testing to see if the strain infecting "gay" men there is the same one hitting New York.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation began offering free meningitis vaccines today after a "gay" man from West Hollywood was declared brain dead on Friday.
Thirty-three-year-old lawyer Brett Shaad died within a week of feeling sick.
Authorities suspect he was exposed to bacterial meningitis at a party in Palm Springs the weekend of March 30 that attracts "gay" revelers from across the country.
The New York Daily News is calling the disease an STD threat, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not classify bacterial meningitis as a sexually transmitted disease.
The CDC does say the disease can not be spread by casual contact, but, "Some bacteria can spread through the exchange of respiratory and throat secretions (e.g., kissing)."
KTLA reported the death of Shaad, a West Hollywood lawyer, has caused alarm.
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