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Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex
Reuters ^ | Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:17pm EST | Amanda Beck

Posted on 01/14/2008 4:51:33 PM PST by ECM

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.

They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

Sexually active gay men in San Francisco are 13 times more likely to be infected than their heterosexual neighbors, the 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. "That's why we're trying to spread the message of prevention."

According to chemical analyses, bacteria are spreading among the gay communities of San Francisco and Boston, the researchers said.

"We think that it's spread through sexual activity," Diep said.

*snip*

"Your likelihood of contracting each of these diseases increases with the number of sexual partners that you have," Diep said. "The same can probably be said for MRSA."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: aids; disease; gay; hiv; homosexualagenda; mrsa
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To: I_Like_Spam
I wonder about the dynamics of the body’s immune system when it becomes compromised with the effects of AIDs. A compromised immune system will combat a biological intruder with incomplete results. This sets up the intruder through the dynamics of genetic change to manifest itself in a form that is resistant to the host’s immune system. This new form is more virulent and, if passed on to new hosts with compromised immune systems, can evolve to an even deadlier form. It sort of like treating a disease with antibiotics that are not strong enough to eliminate the disease. The bacterium that resist the antibiotic multiply into a new resistant and virulent strain. This same effect I believe happens in the test tube of the compromised immune system. Such persons become carriers to infect others.
61 posted on 01/14/2008 6:00:08 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: ECM

I watch Project Runway. One of the contestants had to leave early this time because he had MRSA inside his mouth. He was gay and HIV+, and I remember wondering about it, if it was from the HIV or not.

In light of this article, I think I’ve learned a little more than I’m comfortable with.


62 posted on 01/14/2008 6:00:21 PM PST by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: ECM
Image hosted by Photobucket.com filthy disease ridden queers anyway...
63 posted on 01/14/2008 6:15:28 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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I research MRSA.
Any skin contact can spread it. Athletes are also more at risk than the general poulation. The only reason that gays would be more at risk is their high promiscuity of skin-skin contact through sex. Lesbians are probably less likely to carry it.
Any profession or behavior that involves lots of skin contact, sexual or nonsexual, increases the risk.


64 posted on 01/14/2008 6:27:01 PM PST by Libertarianchick
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To: B.O. Plenty

Unfortunately, this is an instance where the choices made by others may kill you.

Good personal choices will mostly protect a person from HIV. They are largely irrelevant once MRSA becomes widespread.


65 posted on 01/14/2008 6:31:34 PM PST by fightinJAG ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: max americana

Not quite. The point of the article is that the sexual practices of some cause this bacteria to flourish and then spread through casual contact throughout a community.

It’s not like HIV. This staph can be caught on the proverbial doorknob, for real.

When this staph shows up at a school, for example, they close the facility down and hose down the whole thing, including wiping down school buses, etc.


67 posted on 01/14/2008 6:34:16 PM PST by fightinJAG ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: ccmay

You, friend, are sadly uninformed.

Unlike HIV, this is not an infection that is passed ONLY during sex. It is passed through casual contact, so anyone, including those who are far, far away from the homosexual community, can catch it.

The point of the article is that this superbug is being picked up by these guys, for example, while in the hospital, then they go out and give it to many, many more people through multiple sex partners.

This increases (1) the total amount of bacteria floating around the community, and (2) the number of people who can place the bacteria in public settings (transportation, restaurants, movie theaters, anywhere people go).

Because there is more bacteria, and it is moved into more places, more people who have nothing to do with the original population can pick it up and get very ill.

Google MSRA and read the stories of school shut downs and so on. The threat to the general population is because the bacteria is spread by casual, not sexual contact.


69 posted on 01/14/2008 6:39:42 PM PST by fightinJAG ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: Mr. Lucky
It’s almost as if the wages of sin is death.

Could make one believe in reprobate behavior; calling evil good; and plagues, too.

70 posted on 01/14/2008 6:40:33 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree. Tar & feathers optional extras.)
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To: Morgana

Several school children have actually died from getting this bacteria, presumably at school.


71 posted on 01/14/2008 6:43:48 PM PST by fightinJAG ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
There’s good reason why God warned Mankind against homosexual sex (as well as sex with animals). We ignore God’s warning at our peril.

I have often wondered if AIDS and HIV disease were God's way of "speaking" to us.

Now I wonder about MSRA as well.

72 posted on 01/14/2008 6:53:09 PM PST by upchuck (Attention Senator Clinton: Lying Is Stupid When The Truth Is So Easy To Find)
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To: jonrick46

>>>>This sets up the intruder through the dynamics of genetic change to manifest itself in a form that is resistant to the host’s immune system. This new form is more virulent

Thanks for that helpful explanation. It’s what I was getting at in #53 above, but knowing nothing about biology it was difficult to articulate.

I hate to put it this way, but your explanation makes it perfectly obvious that the “gay community” is the ideal petri dish for the evolution of new and very deadly diseases. Basically, a closed community that is constantly recycling the toxins and waste products that the human body is designed to excrete and eliminate.


73 posted on 01/14/2008 6:55:48 PM PST by angkor ("We are not very many mistakes away from a second Holocaust." Newt Gingrich, Nov 15 2007)
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To: null and void
'Thy rod and thy staph comfort infect me'...

It's the sign of the Beast: Sick,Sick,Sick.

74 posted on 01/14/2008 6:57:14 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree. Tar & feathers optional extras.)
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To: ECM

“Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex.”

Is that code for anoreceptive intercourse? buggery? fudge-packing? Butt-pirating?

Don’t seem right, does it?


75 posted on 01/14/2008 6:57:34 PM PST by Harrius Magnus (Pucker up Mo, and your dhimmi Leftist freaks, here comes your Jizya!)
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To: angkor
This is good reason to be homophobic.
76 posted on 01/14/2008 6:58:34 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: gaijin
If one reads the article, it certainly puts the lie to all of those saccharine-condescending public service TV spots about "The More You Know"TM, and the attitude that the answer is EducationTM.

I'm bookmarking the article to show to the next liberal who tells me we need more sex education.

No cheers, unfortunately--I wish they'd quit: I would not wish AIDS on even my worst enemy.

77 posted on 01/14/2008 7:04:54 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Oooooooooo! Well played!


78 posted on 01/14/2008 7:05:06 PM PST by null and void (Conservatives are tired of being sucked up to every 4 years and stabbed in the back for the next 3.)
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To: Libertarianchick
Lesbians are probably less likely to carry it.

Through a business acquaintance, I'm aware of a lesbian couple in the SF area, both with MRSA and both in very serious condition.

79 posted on 01/14/2008 7:09:26 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (**insert witty tagline here**)
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To: ECM

There’s TOO MUCH information on this thread~!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww!


80 posted on 01/14/2008 7:10:43 PM PST by Scarchin (Romney/Thompson 2008)
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