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March 11, 2015

If you keep it up you'll go blind.

Since December 2014, as many as 15 cases of ocular syphilis—a sexually transmitted disease which has led to blindness in several of the individuals—have been reported in men who have sex with men on the West Coast.

Confirmed cases in Washington State, San Francisco as well as two suspected cases found in Los Angeles that are currently under investigation are raising alarm among public health officials, community care providers and prevention specialists. In December and January, Washington State health officials reported six people diagnosed with ocular syphilis—including two who have gone blind—according to recent Washington Department of Health public warnings and news articles. AIDS Healthcare Foundation | HIV/AIDS Testing, Treatment, & Advocacy

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 11, 2015 11:16 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I don't really want to know. And, I can't say I really care.

Posted by: Fat Man [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 6:34 AM

As they live so shall they die.
The sooner the better.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 6:38 AM

We know that AIDS strikes heterosexuals as well (mostly in Africa), but America's and Europe's gays have a propensity for bringing these diseases into their communities in our environment. It makes it harder for people to NOT be homophobic.

The whole SF bath house thing in the 80's spooked a lot of gays who tried to warn against the practice, but to no avail.

Posted by: DonRodrigo [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 8:07 AM

All ya'll need to stop be so judgmental.
Everybody has the right to dabble in fecal matter if they so choose. /sc

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 9:45 AM

How much money and effort is wasted so that people can continue to behave as though there were no consequences.

Posted by: Mother Effingby [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 12:58 PM

Ah yes, the disease with a rejected cure. What is wanted is a cure that requires no responsibility.

Look for love in the wrong places and one finds things undesirable.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 2:04 PM

The typical gay response: Can we do it until we need glasses?

Posted by: Grizzly [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 12, 2015 7:08 PM

Genesis 19 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

19 And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,
2 And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.
3 He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread and they ate:
4 But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house both young and old, all the people together.
5 And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither that we may know them:
6 Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:
7 Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.
8 I have two daughters who as yet have not known man: I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.
9 But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a, stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.
10 And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door:
11 And them that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.
12 And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:
13 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.
14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
15 And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.
16 And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
18 And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord,
19 Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die:
20 There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
21 And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
22 Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.
24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
25 And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
26 And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.
27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord,
28 He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

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