[blam]

New Strain of MRSA Spreads Among Gay Men

[tioga]

-should we get nervous yet?

[diamond6]

“That’s why we’re trying to spread the message of prevention.”

Prevention...........what a joke.

[RightWhale]

Ultimately we will be reprocessed one way or another.

[sierrahome]

‘Democracy-Eating’ MRS. “C” Threatens American freedom.
Coincidence? I think not.

[eastsider]

Annals of Internal Medicine

I bet that name has been the butt of a joke or two.

[TCats]

A good start on prevention - Quarantine San Franciso. All of these places are just incubators and vectors for this stuff.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Marvelous.

[Chode]

filthy disease ridden queers destroying society...

[ml/nj]

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

I just want to know: Is this MSRA potentially more or less dangerous to my health than second hand smoke?

ML/NJ

[Age of Reason]

Spreading rapidly among gay men in several major US cities, researchers reported in the Anals of Internal Medicine.

[maine-iac7]

It is thought to be spread by UNATURAL sexual contact

they left a word out.

Another world plague, compliments of the gays - and there are some who will deliberately spread it to the non-gay community so they can say "See, it isn't just us" -

[gidget7]

If gay men were interested in prevention, AIDS would not be a problem. What makes anyone think they will now suddenly become interested in prevention.

They KNOW how to prevent, the are not interested. Nor is our government.

[Wil H]

In San Francisco’s Castro district, home to the highest concentration of gay people in the US, about one in 588 people are carrying the multi-drug resistant bug.

"We probably had it here first, and now it is spreading elsewhere,” said Dr Diep. “This is a national problem, and San Francisco is at the epicenter.”

But just you educators carry on with your program of teaching our school children that the gay lifestyle is totally normal and acceptable, and don't bother to give them any warnings about health risks...

Nothing to see here, move on, we don't want any bigots criticizing our behavior..

[Wonder Warthog]

I wonder if they’ll finally get around to doing quarantine and contact tracing NOW.

[dawn53]

The title is a little misleading. There have been only 2 cases in the UK.

[wintertime]

It is thought to be spread by sexual contact, 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.

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Sexual contact is merely ONE way staph aureus is spread.

[Southerngl]

My ex boss had this. She thought she had a brown recluse spider bite (as I’m understanding alot of these boils are being mistaken for)until they did an analysis of the puss and it turned out to be the MRSA. A few weeks later a lady got the pnuemonia MRSA and brought her IV Antibiotic bag to hang at work!!! I pitched a fit and finally convinced the higher ups this crap was CONTAGIOUS and they forced both of them to take sick leave until healed. My cousin died from the pnuemonia kind as it went into her heart and she died before she could get a heart transplant, I don’t play with it. And she was coughing all over the place. Nice lady, good employee, but just kind of ignorant I think.

[Mike Darancette]

The gay community sure seems to attract some nasty bugs.

[Between the Lines]

Related articles here on FR:

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)

Superbug linked to homosexual behavior

New Strain of MRSA Spreads Among Gay Men

'Flesh-Eating' MRSA Threatens Britain