Posted on 01/15/2008 10:54:35 PM PST by neverdem
A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the flesh-eating MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday.
In a study published online by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the bacteria seemed to be spread most easily through anal intercourse but also through casual skin-to-skin contact and touching contaminated surfaces.
The authors warned that unless microbiology laboratories were able to identify the strain and doctors prescribed the proper antibiotic therapy, the infection could soon spread among other groups and become a wider threat.
The new strain seems to have spread rapidly in gay populations in San Francisco and Boston, the researchers wrote, and has the potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination among gay men.
The study was based on a review of medical records from outpatient clinics in San Francisco and Boston and nine medical centers in San Francisco.
The Castro district in San Francisco has the highest number of gay residents in the country, according to the University of California, San Francisco. One in 588 residents is infected with the new multidrug-resistant MRSA strain, the study found. That compares with 1 in 3,800 people in San Francisco, according to statistical analyses based on ZIP codes.
A separate part of the study found that gay men in San Francisco were about 13 times more likely to be infected than other people in the city.
The San Francisco researchers suggested that scrubbing with soap and water might be the most effective way to stop skin-to-skin transmission, particularly after sexual activities.
MRSA, for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was once spread chiefly in hospitals. But in recent years, a number of healthy people have acquired it outside hospitals.
Nearly 19,000 people died in the United States from MRSA infections in 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
People can only drive down a one-way street the wrong way so many times before the odds catch up with them and there’s an ‘accident’ which totals both vehicles.
IMO, it’s natures way of controlling traffic.
“will inevitably produce ever more virulent and drug resistant critters which will go on to harass the rest of society.”
You put your finger on the problem. HIV/Aids patients are on high powered cocktails of drugs, to prop up a damaged immune system.
Normal everyday bugs will turn more virulent in these walking bio-reactors. It is guaranteed.
He’s on a roll, just posted essentially the same story here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954513/posts
Maybe it is? We don't know for sure either way.
Carolyn
Uh... yep. That' how they contract it.
You are right that sodomy is not the only way to acquire HIV/AIDS, but according to the US Centers for Disease Control, “Of newly diagnosed HIV infections in the United States during 2003, CDC estimated that approximately 63% were among men who were infected through sexual contact with other men...” http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5424a2.htm
On the contrary - it is coming to your TV screens in 2008 starring John McCaniac who will say that it is caused by global warming which only he can stop.
What they didn’t mention in this article is that there is a new drug resistant strain of HIV to go along with the drug resistant staph. The NYT had a ridiculous article on it and the relationship to meth. It seems that gays who frequent bath houses have discovered that meth enhances the random and group sex experience. The NYT claims that although the drug use is rampant within the gay community, it limited to gay white men.
You forgot making a Rock Video.
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
Staph fatalities may exceed AIDS deaths
In comment# 1, I linked the original Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA) article which had been open access at the time. Now they want a fee to access their archives.
Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the United States
Here's the abstract.
I routinely link the abstracts. I link entire articles only when they are free.
You know I actually thought later—I left out a benefit concert :) Bono and Madonna headlining.
So that would be Drug induced Psycotic tweekers men having high risk gomorah and sodomy sex.
Dang that’s a mouthful.
Just amazing how extreme people can get.
I feel blessed finding it difficult to just chat in a group of more than two people at the local family grocery store and then hope I don’t catch the cold/flu of the week.
Eau de Crab?
Hmmmmm I'm thinking.....so if I understand you the disease doesn't matter it's just that gays are spreading it. We don't need to concentrate on the disease just the dislike of "them".
That way anyone who is HIV positive and then gets MRSA will become another AIDS victim. If you're not HIV postive, don't bother us, we only deal with true victims of AIDS.
If none of the above makes any sense to you, don't feel bad. I wrote it and it doesn't make any sense to me either.
Republicans keep resisting the passage of laws that would stop this kind of discrimination practiced by viruses and bacteria.
And auto accidents, too, I think?
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