There seems to be a new strain of staph bacteria that is being spread predominately by gay men. So far the cases are mostly concentrated in San Francisco, LA, Boston, and New York City.

Its highly resistant to antibiotics and other forms of treatment. The risk of contracting this bacteria is 13 times greater for gay men.

I am curious why they aren't calling this a STD. If I understood what I read, its is either always, or at least usually passed with sexual contact. Political correctness?

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I think that to call this an STD at this point is a little premature. MRSA in various strains has been around for decades and as long as we continue to dispense antibiotics for every little thing, we'll continue to see new strains crop up. I refuse to use antibacterial soap anymore and will only take antibiotics when absolutely necessary.
Oh, and even though this particular strain of MRSA seems to be predominant among gay men, don't be fooled. ANY form of MRSA is highly contagious and we're all susceptible!

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No doubt, Mrs. M. MRSA's been around for a long time; pretty much since the development of next-gen antibiotics. It's unpleasant, but not unusual.

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A new, highly drug-resistant strain of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has moved outside hospitals and is now spreading among gay men, researchers reported Monday.

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FOXNews.com - New Strain of MRSA Spreads Among Gay Men - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News


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.

* In other words, it is being more easily PASSED around by the unnatural processes of "gay sex" among "gay" males.

So it didn't ORIGINATE among "gays." It's now being SPREAD by "gays."

Gay.

The WAY.

The way to be good disease vectors. *

The bacteria can cause deep-tissue infections if they enter the body through a wound in the skin.

Incidence of MRSA is rising along with the resurgence of syphilis, rectal gonorrhea, and new HIV infections partly because of changes in beliefs about the severity of HIV and an increase in risky behaviors, such as illicit drug use and having sex that abrades the skin, Diep's team wrote.

Newsmax.com - Resistant Staph Passed in Gay Sex

I didn't know you had so much gay sex in your hospitals.

Should have known you'd jump on this. For the record, there's plenty of STD's out there prevalent among heterosexuals, e.g. chlamydia of which there are about 92 million cases reported globally each year. Oh gee! The "unnatural processes" of straight sex among heterosexuals!

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Careful Mrs M. By posting a direct counter to Trips', there's a greater than average chance you'll end up on his ignore list.

You're quite right though. Quoting what trips said, does that mean that heterosexuals can be described as disease vectors also? Why do we (ie as a society) feel the need to segregate and make one out to be better than the other? Why can't we simply say that "humans" are disease vectors? Perhaps that doesn't fit in with various political arguments?

I wonder what role immunosuppression is playing in the spread of MRSA among the gay community.

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LOL You're right!

As for humans being disease vectors...that definitely wouldn't fit the political or religious agenda of some folks. They'd much rather have a "hated" group to bitch about.

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I've no doubt that immunosuppression is a major factor, especially when you consider that MRSA is prevalent in hospitals and nursing homes. It seems that we always had at least one case at all times when I worked at the nursing home and it was always in the weaker patients.

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If it does have anything to do with immunosuppression, it will cross to women quickly, especially since they're the fastest growing population of HIV+ in America:

HIV infected women and mothers: a study of their needs.

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Yes, heterosexual sex is a disease vector as WELL obviously.

What some of us are choosing to ignore is the fact that homosexual sex has, and always WILL be a disease vector for more DANGEROUS types of NEW diseases.

By natures design ? By Gods design ?

I don't know or care but that is what we clearly SEE.

Just another obvious difference in the nature of homosexual "relations" and heterosexual ones.

Then we'll hear that it's only "love" of course

Tug at our heartstrings and tell us that it's only "love" so we're willing to ignore the dangerous, perverted SEX.

"It's only love."

Yeah right. Bullshit

It's dangerous perversion that only SOME of us are willing to accept as exactly the same as hetero sex. Because it isn't. It's very different and it's dangerous.

That's all.

CT, much of the hetero population has regular anal and/or oral sex.

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Yes, we'll likely (I'm sure we will) see it in the hetero pop. as well.

It's interesting to note how it was seen spreading FIRST in the homosexual population though.

More efficient disease vectors are homosexuals. Just ask any
dangerous bug :-)