[concerned about politics]

The gay poulation will be always be the carriers and transmitters of whatever new and ever more powerful diseases come along.

Flesh eating bacteria (no cure but to slice it off) mutated from auto immune defeceint (AID) patients. It was once a simple strep infection. "Their flesh will be devoured as they stand."
What will mutate next? Syphilis would be my guess.

[ysoitanly]

I don't understand why syphilis is making a 'comeback', unless it's because of all of our immigration - different customs, no medical screening any more to get in here (can't profile!). Or maybe we're now calling syphilis what it is - instead of just lumping it into the 'STD' category.

[Michael Barnes]

Flesh eating bacteria (no cure but to slice it off) mutated from auto immune defeceint (AID) patients

??

DO you have any links I can read?

[neverdem]

"What will mutate next? Syphilis would be my guess."

Surprisingly no, syphilis is still sensitive to many of the older variants of the penicillin class of antibiotics. They are the drugs of choice unless there is a history of penicillin allergy.

I don't have an explanation why the organism that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, doesn't have the have the tendency to mutate and develop drug resistance like so many other organisms, other than it has genes to prevent mutations, but that's just my speculation.