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Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex
Reuters ^ | Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:17pm EST | Amanda Beck

Posted on 01/14/2008 4:51:33 PM PST by ECM

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.

They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

Sexually active gay men in San Francisco are 13 times more likely to be infected than their heterosexual neighbors, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

"Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable," said Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco who led the study. "That's why we're trying to spread the message of prevention."

According to chemical analyses, bacteria are spreading among the gay communities of San Francisco and Boston, the researchers said.

"We think that it's spread through sexual activity," Diep said.

*snip*

"Your likelihood of contracting each of these diseases increases with the number of sexual partners that you have," Diep said. "The same can probably be said for MRSA."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: aids; disease; gay; hiv; homosexualagenda; mrsa
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1 posted on 01/14/2008 4:51:34 PM PST by ECM
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To: ECM

That headline is just too true!


2 posted on 01/14/2008 4:53:27 PM PST by blackdog
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To: ECM
...the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine

oh dear

3 posted on 01/14/2008 4:54:43 PM PST by TheMightyQuinn
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To: ECM

Choices have consequences.


4 posted on 01/14/2008 4:54:43 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance......)
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To: blackdog

Is there anything that’s not passed?


5 posted on 01/14/2008 4:55:05 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: ECM

When will folks learn that tallywhackers are meant to go in the intake valve and not the exhaust valve ?


6 posted on 01/14/2008 4:55:20 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: ECM

I thought AIDS was bad enough. I guess they will get us all killed through their “choice” of lifestyle and spread their misery to one and all. Misery loves company.


7 posted on 01/14/2008 4:56:37 PM PST by flynmudd (Proud Navy Mom)
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To: TheMightyQuinn

LOL!

hmmm, deadly bacteria passed on during gay sex?

water makes you wet and the world revolves on it’s axis. Nothing to see here folks.


8 posted on 01/14/2008 4:57:42 PM PST by max americana
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To: B.O. Plenty

It’s almost as if the wages of sin is death.


9 posted on 01/14/2008 4:57:52 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: ECM
I'm in SF. There's a weird anamoly about the place --DUDES get Cholera a lot, here, and it's completely 1st world, right?

Cuz they're eating each-others' BUTTS, see?

Yep!

10 posted on 01/14/2008 4:57:55 PM PST by gaijin
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To: ECM

Staff staph?


11 posted on 01/14/2008 4:58:07 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: ECM
Quarantine. Learn the lesson of AIDS.

They can have sex with each other in quarantine until they die from the bacterial infection.

12 posted on 01/14/2008 4:58:15 PM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: CaptainK
'Is there anything that’s not passed?'

Morals and common sense.

Hey, you left yourself 'open' for that one. No pun intended. I don't think. :-)


13 posted on 01/14/2008 4:58:31 PM PST by Viking2002 (Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

ROFLOL!!!


14 posted on 01/14/2008 4:58:59 PM PST by TomServo
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To: blackdog
"That headline is just too true!"

And you know this, how?

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15 posted on 01/14/2008 4:59:26 PM PST by avacado
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To: ECM

Makes one look back with nostalgia to an age where rubbers were waterproof shoe covers, and gay meant happy.


16 posted on 01/14/2008 4:59:36 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ECM
'Thy rod and thy staph comfort infect me'...
17 posted on 01/14/2008 4:59:48 PM PST by null and void (Conservatives are tired of being sucked up to every 4 years and stabbed in the back for the next 3.)
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To: gaijin
"they're eating each-others' ...."

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18 posted on 01/14/2008 5:00:30 PM PST by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: ECM

There’s good reason why God warned Mankind against homosexual sex (as well as sex with animals). We ignore God’s warning at our peril.


19 posted on 01/14/2008 5:00:45 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: null and void
You are more twisted than I.

This news is disgusting.

20 posted on 01/14/2008 5:01:24 PM PST by nuf said (I am, therefore I think.)
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