Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Florida Man Charged With Criminal Transmission of HIV to a Child After Raping Him

According to police reports, Kelly Major Cooper, 46, allegedly kidnapped a 10-year-old boy from a party in West Park several weeks ago. Cooper then allegedly took the boy to his son's Dania Beach residence, where he locked the child in a bedroom. Cooper then raped the boy and forced him to perform ... More >>

Florida State Senator Says We Need to "Vaccinate" Against Shariah

Republican state senator in Florida Alan Hays is a hero! Hays, who once filed legislation to keep public buses from stopping on streets because one time he got stuck in traffic behind one, says that Islam is gonna Sharia Law all up the state of Florida like polio. And if Sharia Law is the polio, A ... More >>

European Pediatricians: American Academy of Pediatrics' Recommendation to Circumcise Baby Boys Is "Questionable, Weak"

After years of studying all the studies about circumcision, the American Academy of Pediatrics last year updated its policy about circumcision of infant boys. Whereas it had previously been neutral on the matter, the organization started recommending the procedure, advising that the benefits outweig ... More >>

Passengers Aboard Royal Caribbean Report Having Diarrhea; Ship Cuts Cruise Short

The Vision of the Seas had to turn back from its 11-day cruise after passengers basically started puking all over the place. The Royal Caribbean ship docked at Port Everglades on Friday morning after a number of passengers as well as crew members showed symptoms of what the company is calling a spr ... More >>

President Clinton's Event Disrupted by Anti-Circumcision Activists

Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquardo, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event -- a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Che ... More >>

Pembroke Pines Men Accused of Having Sex With a 16-Year-Old Boy, Not Telling Him They Are HIV-Positive

Two men met a 16-year-old boy on Grindr and engaged in some steamy-hot sexting via instant messages. This led to the three meeting up on December 12 to do some poppers and then hop into a hot tub. The three then engaged in unprotected sex. The two men, Darrell Allen Evans, 40, and Huy Kien Trinh, ... More >>

Publix Recalls Frozen Tempura Shrimp

Lakeland-based Publix supermarkets has issued a voluntary recall for 11oz packets of frozenshrimp tempura. Actually, the shrimp is OK. It's the dipping sauce packets, which that contain soy but aren't labeled as such, that sparked the recall. No illnesses have been reported, according to a Publix p ... More >>

Keep Your Frankenfood Outta My Publix (Or at Least Label It, Please): Protestors Rally Against Genetically Modified Foods

Despite stormy weather Friday afternoon, as part of Occupy Monsanto's Global Week of Action, a group of individuals turned out for the national endeavor to require mandatory labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in foods. The protestors are hoping to garner suppo ... More >>

Belle Glade Man Arrested for Not Telling Girl He Had Oral Sex With That He Is HIV-Positive

Earl D. Coney Jr. is accused of having oral sex with a 16-year-old girl without telling her he is HIV-positive. On August 28, Coney apparently picked the girl up from her home and brought her to his place, where he expressed a desire to have oral sex with her. She initially spurned his advances, ... More >>

Voluntary Recall of Fast Food Sliced Apples

The company that supplies fresh apple slices to many fast food outlets, including Burger King and McDonald's, has voluntarily recalled several products after finding traces of Listeria monocytogenes on equipment at the Missa Bay, LLC processing plant.Missa Bay's parent company, Ready Pac, has issue ... More >>

Did You Know MIA Has a Quarantine Station?

Tuberculosis Can Spread Through Bong Tokes and Other Weird Facts About "White Plague"

See also "Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of 'Poor Black Men' Secet as Disease Spreads" and "Are Medical Marijuana Claims Made in Reggae Songs True?"The Palm Beach Post's Stacey Singer on Sunday delivered a stellar investigation into the state's worst tuberculous outbreak in two decades ... More >>

A Drug That Sort of Prevents HIV Transmission: What Could Go Wrong?

​Imagine a drug that could stop the spread of HIV. People could screw whomever they wanted however they wanted and sleep peacefully knowing that the virus wouldn't soon be waging an all-out assault on their immune systems. It sounds like a quick fix to one of history's most pressing public he ... More >>

West Nile Virus Apparently Still a Thing -- Case Confirmed in Palm Beach County

kintera.com​Palm Beach County's health department is reporting that a woman has acquired the West Nile virus -- the first case in the county in five years.The county issued a "mosquito borne disease advisory" yesterday when the case was confirmed, after the woman was diagnosed with the disease by ... More >>

With "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh Turns the Star-Studded Hollywood Disaster Flick on Its Head

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the AIDS Crisis

Take a Stand

Ann Coulter Defends Her Radioactive Love

​A few last words on Coulter's radiation fetish. Two weeks ago, she claimed ionizing radiation could act as a cancer vaccine, and that nobody died of radiation poisoning at Chernobyl. Then she appeared on the The O'Reilly Factor to defend the column. Last week, she devoted a second column to the p ... More >>

Deer Tick's Twang Fervor Takes Over Grand Central

Is Brain Safe To Eat?

Mmmmm.... brains.​The question was raised for me after checking out Pakistani restaurant Usmania, which we reviewed this week. Usmania serves a dish called brain masala, a karahi-cooked curry made from the cerebral matter of goats. In the review, I mention my fiancee was adamant I not eat this dis ... More >>

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 rap ... More >>

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 bee ... More >>

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. Fo ... More >>

Walk it Out

Dengue Fever

Singer Chhom Nimol makes Dengue Fever worthwhile.

The Sodom & Gomorrah to Thelma & Louise

WPLG Calls For Naugle To Resign

Mayor Naugle Interviewed By Hero, Bill O'Reilly

Letters for April 13-19, 2006

No Touchy

Keep Your Blood, Bud

Death Pool

In McNally's play, a harsh, AIDS-afflicted world eats away at gays and straights alike

Tailpipe

For Sale: Political Office

U.S.A-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Swimming in Charity

Sex is fun. Especially when it's for a good cause.

Best Correction

Sun-Sentinel on March 8, 2003

Where Are You Now, Anita?

Gay pride group celebrates 26 years of fighting back

Drug Holiday

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

Anthrax Side Show

Media madness at disease central is no joke

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

Padre Pio's Big Adventure

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

Straight Talk on Gay Art

Best Charity

Poverello Center

Night & Day

February 11 - 17, 1999

Night & Day

November 19 - 25, 1998

Night & Day

July 16 - 22, 1998

Swingers Redux

Fed up with fear of infection and bored with the Internet, a new generation of swingers reinvents South Florida's sexual underworld

Infuriating the Joint

A public seminar on the evils of marijuana. An activist claiming pot saved his life. Someone was arrested.

Eviction Notice

Enough to Make You Sick

The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

Friend of the Little People