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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

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To: Libertarianchick

Lesbians don’t have sex with their clothes off, what a waste.


81 posted on 01/14/2008 7:13:05 PM PST by razorback-bert (Remember that amateurs built the Ark while professionals built the Titanic.)
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To: Libertarianchick
Any skin contact can spread it.

Yep. It is hardly surprising that it can be passed through gay (or straight, for that matter) sex - skin on skin is the usual vector. Gay sex, especially unprotected anal sex, carries with it a unique set of bacterial challenges but my guess is that promiscuity is more of an issue in this case.

And MRSA is very, very nasty once it gets started. If you can get it on the surface with alcohol you'll do OK; if it's in a place where alcohol can't reach you play the antibiotic roulette; if it's where antibiotics find it difficult to reach you've got a real problem.

Cleanliness, monogamy, and common sense are looking like awfully good advice. Radical, huh?

82 posted on 01/14/2008 7:22:08 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: nyyankeefan

That’s right. Instead of just advising against gay sex. They couldn’t do that, see. It might “offend” homosexuals.


83 posted on 01/14/2008 7:22:25 PM PST by Pinkbell (Duncan Hunter 2008 - Protecting and Restoring America)
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To: ECM

The gift that keeps on giving...


84 posted on 01/14/2008 7:37:46 PM PST by streetpreacher (Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
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To: ECM

Staff or staph?


85 posted on 01/14/2008 7:39:02 PM PST by aruanan
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To: ECM
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.

Another reason is that they're many times more likely to have compromised immune systems.
86 posted on 01/14/2008 7:40:21 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Billthedrill
Cleanliness, monogamy, and common sense are looking like awfully good advice.

Celibacy works for me...

87 posted on 01/14/2008 7:56:44 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: ECM

These people are really sick. They are jumping on each other and licking each other like dogs in heat.

And this is supposed to just another “choice” that is “normal”?


88 posted on 01/14/2008 8:00:49 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: ECM

being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.
That’s what happens when you bang a monkey and bring AIDS and HIV out into the public realm.


89 posted on 01/14/2008 8:17:16 PM PST by antiunion person (Thompson 2008)
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To: nyyankeefan

Inevitable. That’s all they’re good for.


90 posted on 01/14/2008 8:23:44 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (I heard it on the grapevine and saw it in the paper, so it must be true.)
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Of course it can be spread by casual contact, after it is been grown in the Petri dish of some orifice and they spread it by casual contact with straight people.

I once complained about fecal matter on a washbowl in a public restroom where homosexuals were known to have sex. The store response was “AND?”. My advice is to avoid all public restrooms if at all possible.


91 posted on 01/14/2008 8:42:28 PM PST by LongTimeMILurker
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To: fieldmarshaldj
When will folks learn that tallywhackers are meant to go in the intake valve and not the exhaust valve ?

No hummers?

92 posted on 01/15/2008 7:14:05 AM PST by DungeonMaster (WELL I SPEAK LOUD, AND I CARRY A BIGGER STICK, AND I USE IT TOO!)
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To: LongTimeMILurker

these gays need to get mental health help as there is nothing about their sexual behaviour also I took a trip up to boston not long ago and these homo’s are walking around these woods called blue hills just looking to have sex with a strange man then they go to public toilets.
The blue hills got so bad that they had to close the park at night now because of gay activity

We stopped at some toilets on the high weay as my youngest kid wanted the bathroom, the place was infested with men hanging around waiting to have sex with other men who turned up .

My youngest daughter now wanted to know why those men were all looking at each other and then holding hands into the toilet.

they are really sick


93 posted on 01/15/2008 7:18:29 AM PST by manc
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To: ECM

I’m sure that class on How to be gay at the University of Michigan (I think it’s there) will have a section this.


94 posted on 01/15/2008 7:29:32 AM PST by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: DungeonMaster

“No hummers?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953915/posts


95 posted on 01/15/2008 2:32:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: ECM

MRSA can make for some nasty sores. Imagine having this stuff up your rectum or on your you-know-what.


96 posted on 01/15/2008 9:39:07 PM PST by 3catsanadog (Vote for the person at the primaries; vote for the party at the election.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
There’s only one drug that can knock it out and it’s only a matter of time before it mutates to be able to deal with that.

Isn't that drug Vancomycin? There is also a nasty bug called VRE (Vancomycin Resistant).

97 posted on 01/15/2008 9:41:09 PM PST by 3catsanadog (Vote for the person at the primaries; vote for the party at the election.)
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To: ECM
This superbug can cause life-threatening and disfiguring infections and can often only be treated with expensive, intravenous antibiotics.

Anyone want to guess who gets to pay for their treatment? Once again, the "alternative lifestyle" crowd will force the American taxpayers to pay for a problem resulting from behavior most of us find against God and nature. But, we're the bad guys.

98 posted on 01/15/2008 10:07:54 PM PST by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: ECM; All
More on this subject:

Staph infections linked to 'manscaping' (body shaving) [The latest homosexual disease]

S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph

New Strain of MRSA Spreads Among Gay Men

Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Striking Gay Men - spread primarily through anal intercourse (MRSA USA300)

Epidemic Feared - Gays May Spread Deadly Staph Infection to General Population (MRSA USA300)

99 posted on 01/15/2008 10:57:56 PM PST by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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To: 3catsanadog

Methicillin (M RSA).


100 posted on 01/15/2008 11:07:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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