Having lost one of my best friends, Larry Brickman, to bacterial meningitis nearly seven years ago, this current outbreak is bringing back many bad memories. Larry was neither HIV-positive nor using contaminated preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, but I urge everyone to read up and see a doctor at the first sign of symptoms. If he had had even the slightest hint that his "flu" was something else, this whole nightmare might have been avoided.
NOTE: The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene recommends meningococcal vaccination for the following persons listed HERE.
NOTE: The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene recommends meningococcal vaccination for the following persons listed HERE.
2 comments:
it seems a number of them, not sure of the ones in NYC, are caused by a fungus that is in a tainted cortisone medication/treatment that people recently received;
and people absolutely need to be careful.
on another 'flu & cold' like clueless infection men are not aware of, i just found out that i've had a bacterial prostate infection and all the major symptoms are cold & flu like; when it becomes acute, which can take up to 3 moths, are severe back pain and testicular pain. most men are never aware they have it.
so, it takes personal awareness on a lot of things to be healthy...
Get well soon, Mike!
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