Subject: Contagious and Infectious Diseases

• Night & Day

  February 11, 1999

• Mayor Naugle Interviewed By Hero, Bill O'Reilly

  August 23, 2007

• WPLG Calls For Naugle To Resign

  August 24, 2007

• An Epidemic of Apathy

  December 17, 1998

• The Straight Dope

  February 5, 1998

• The Single-Minded Professor

  February 5, 1998

• Letters

  February 26, 1998

• Friend of the Little People

  February 26, 1998

• Enough to Make You Sick

  March 26, 1998

• Cause of Death: Excessive Privacy

  June 4, 1998

• Swingers Redux

  June 11, 1998

• Infuriating the Joint

  June 11, 1998

• The Dentist Is Out

  September 24, 1998

• The Straight Dope

  January 21, 1999

• Color Blinded

  January 28, 1999

• Nova, HEAL Thyself

  February 4, 1999

• The Straight Dope

  February 18, 1999

• Best Charity

  March 11, 1999

• Sexual Roulette

  May 27, 1999

• Letters

  June 3, 1999

• Letters

  June 17, 1999

• Best Place to Gamble

  May 17, 2001

• Best Correction

  May 15, 2003

• Swimming in Charity

  October 30, 2003

• Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

  Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  January 3, 2008

• Dengue Fever

  April 3, 2008

• NFL Tackles Flesh-Eating Infections

  Staph infections sacked these two Pro BowlersLast fall, staph infections were going around the NFL like a bimbo on a broken Ferris wheel. Even Time magazine felt compelled to point out that "a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman"; why, even the indomitable Peyton Manning, the flawless Tom Brady, and six Cleveland Browns had been taken down by the bug. In response, Commissioner Roger Goodell, in conjunction with the NFL Players Association, sent two doctors to inspe

  March 13, 2009

• Walk it Out

  April 24, 2008

• The Sodom & Gomorrah to Thelma & Louise

  March 13, 2008

• U.S.A-holes

  Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

  October 21, 2004

• Letters for April 13-19, 2006

  April 13, 2006

• The Protection Racket

  And the band plays on

  February 2, 2006

• WHEEL L_VE

  December 1, 2005

• Letters for November 3-9, 2005

  November 3, 2005

• Agitation Nation

  October 20, 2005

• No Touchy

  October 20, 2005

• Tailpipe

  For Sale: Political Office

  November 18, 2004

• Unsafe Sex

  Our intrepid reporter probes the gay orgies that have helped to spark a runaway syphilis outbreak

  May 22, 2003

• Acting Out

  Whether or not the state helps out AIDS sufferers, last week's botched protest says much about the HIV community's problem

  March 28, 2002

• Drug Holiday

  Once a leading gay activist, CenterOne cofounder Gary Steinsmith has fallen on hard times

  January 10, 2002

• Culture For a Cause

  "The One Million Dollar Art Show"

  November 16, 2000

• The Last Sanatorium

  When tuberculosis, one of mankind's most pernicious diseases, threatens public health, the patients are sent to A.G. Holley State Hospital

  April 13, 2000

• Burning Down the House

  After the closing of an apartment building for AIDS victims in Fort Lauderdale, the city's ability to oversee a multimillion-dollar, federally funded program is called into question

  October 14, 1999

• Padre Pio's Big Adventure

  A little piece of a bleeding Italian priest has traveled here to help in the healing

  August 12, 1999

• Attacking Swine Flu Before It Attacks Us

  Flickr: dabby1This fellow hopes to get in your bloodstream before the vaccine.​The past few months, this blog and Broward Health have had a strained relationship, to put it mildly; but hey, global pandemics make for strange bed partners. Juice is glad to report that the north county's $1 billion public hospital district will not be caught by surprise by swine flu (sorry, pork producers, but it's more fun to say than "H1N1"). I spoke yesterday with Jeanne Eckes, the district's director of emerg

  September 2, 2009

• Flu Shot With Your Lap Dance? Not in West Palm

  ​Despite the popularity of a free flu shot and buffet promotion at Rachel's Gentleman's Club in Casselberry, managers at Rachel's in West Palm Beach say they won't offer those kinds of shots here. Instead, they'll concentrate on offering "world-class adult entertainment." Boring. For the past six years at the Casselberry location, which is north of Orlando, employees, veterans, and people older than 55 are welcomed in for a free flu shot and a buffet. The shots are given in

  October 6, 2009

• Swine and the Seniors: A Frightening Couple

  flickr user: Brent and MarilynnSwine fear has arrived.​South Florida's senior citizen population has had a rough few months. What with the fear-mongering about death panels in Obama's health care plan, and worries that cuts in Medicare will leave them penniless on bingo night, the news has not been good.Now comes the swine flu vaccine, a health care scare that elderly people can totally get behind. They don't mind waiting in line for the chance to inject a weird mist up their noses. They still

  October 21, 2009

• Rape Victim Sees Doctor, Loses Health Insurance

  flickr.comRape? Sounds like a pre-existing condition to insurance companies.​Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been raped. As a safety precaution, she visited her doctor, who prescribed a month's worth of anti-AIDS medicine. And that's about when things went from horrible to unbelievably fucked.When Turner went to cha

  October 22, 2009

• Waiting for Swine Flu Vaccine? Just Skip It.

  Don't want it. Don't need it.​In what may come to be called the Great Swine Flu Fuck-Up, local health officials have vaccinated thousands of schoolkids this year with the regular seasonal flu nasal mist -- a vaccination which unfortunately promises to protect them not at all. The seasonal flu vaccine purportedly protects against three viral strains that aren't very common this year -- those three strains together will probably account for as little as five percent of flu illnesses. But the kic

  October 26, 2009

• Lauderdale Dr. Gary Snyder Argues Against Flu Vaccine

  Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CDC -- see how they arrive at that count in this Slate article). President Obama has declared swine flu a "national emergency" that might kill 90,000

  October 27, 2009