Posted on 01/15/2008 2:04:24 PM PST by docbnj
A new variety of staph bacteria, highly resistant to antibiotics and possibly transmitted by sexual contact, is spreading among gay men in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles, researchers reported Monday. The study released online by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found the highest concentrations of infection by the drug-resistant bug in and around San Francisco's Castro district and among patients who visit health clinics that treat HIV infections in gay men in San Francisco and Boston.
he study estimated that 1 in 588 residents living within the Castro neighborhood 94114 ZIP code area is infected with that variant, which is resistant to six types of commonly used antibiotics. The risk of contracting this difficult-to-treat bug is 13 times greater for gay men than for the rest of the city's population, researchers found.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Second verse, same as the first...
Just because a doctor says it doesn’t make it so. But it IS out there, and there isn’t much stopping it, except that most people don’t have anonymous sex with freaks in filthy hothouse bath houses.
Well, duh!
I think what he meant was, that is this germ continues to increase its ability to survive, that it will eventually make its way to the general population and be spread by other means.
I lived in Frisco (deliberate nickname)for 4 years and the air and water may have been clean, but the streets and sidewalks were filthy with human and dog excretement and urine. Whole parts of the city stank.
Hey, thats my cesspool your talkin about!!
As someone said in another thread, it’s almost like the wages of sin are death or something.
It will become another Super Germ spread by hospitals.
It most likely is in the Hospital frequented by those living in the Castro neighborhood.
Karma...
YEah butt... all I’m saying is that this is MRSA, and it’s already out there. These freaks love to spread their diseases with the general population, which is perhaps the most offensive aspect of their sickness. One of the MRSA stories turned out that a kid in school who had it was rubbing his sores on lockers and driking fountains etc. to start an epi.
It’s good to be aware of these things...but reading the article gave me the creeping crawlies...ewwww.
That guy’s wife has facial hair.
gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph...
gays are always on the quest for that virulent staph!!!!!
If we care, we become in the way!!
God has plans and I see this lifestyle as not being in Gods Plans
If disease don’t kill the deviates then the Muslims will sooner of later!! Islam is here for a reason!!
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)
Heh, judging from the language in the posts, I’m guessing this must be where all the closet-cases hang out.
Remarkable restraint...a New Year resolution????
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