Posted on 01/15/2008 6:18:23 AM PST by tortdog
A new, highly drug-resistant strain of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has moved outside hospitals and is now spreading among gay men, researchers reported Monday.
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In regards to San Francisco, the study found sexually active gay men are 13 times more likely to be infected than the general population.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
It won’t be long before it gets civil rights protections like “other” diseases afflicting the same demographic.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
(Romans 1:26-27 KJV)
We have had a small but alarming number of cases of MRSA in our local school system, even a couple at the schools my children attend.
This is not a gay disease, it's a human disease. Wash your hands, people.
Way to go, boys.
So gays are 13x more likely to not wash their hands?
Yup...My transmission vector was the Gym. And the Health Club invovled threatened to sue anyone that actualy brought that up to the news whores. NO matter that at just one club, in one week( The week I was infected) they had 17 people infected with the crap. No information on how many other folks were infected. They squashed the information.
Oh, don’t be silly. Obviously a disease that can be spread by casual contact (or even indirect contact, as via weight training equipment: my son’s school shut down gym classes when there were a few cases of MRSA among student athletes) will spread with even higher probability with intimate contact.
It’s not the hands they need to be a’washing.
“will spread with even higher probability with intimate contact.”
Yeah...Like when I bother the wife?
Actually, yes. If one of a married couple has MRSA, having sex before the infection is cleared up (and, yes, there are antibiotics that deal with it, at least with the strain that got loose in our local high school), is a lousy idea.
You speak the truth. WE just about had to forego intimate contact until they found a anti-biotic that would control it. Plus we had to worry about the kids...and office mates. It’s an ugly situation to be quiote frank...and just centring this on “GAy” populations is not going to be good.
Anything to prove your analysis for the heightened risk of gays?
QUARANTINE
As far as patronizing the gym, We are more or less bound to go the the place due to a reduction in insurance payments. The company I work for has a preferred rate if you go to the gym 8 times in a month. The only gym in that program is this large chain of gyms in the area. So I could go to another gym, but I would have to pay another 75 bucks a month in premiums.
Nice eh?
Natural Selection is at work here weeding out the weak.
Of course as far as the gene pool goes, they were dead-enders anyway.
Don’t publish this information in Canada or England.
Making any negative statement about the gay lifestyle is ruled to be hate speech in both countries and you will be sanctioned for it.
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