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thepeel
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 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: A deadly new STD is emerging |
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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.
This superbug can cause life-threatening and disfiguring infections and can often only be treated with expensive, intravenous antibiotics.
It killed about 19,000 Americans in 2005, most of them in hospitals, according to a report published in October in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
About 30 percent of all people carry ordinary staph chronically. It can be passed by touching other people or by depositing the bacteria on surfaces or objects.
The bacteria can cause deep-tissue infections if they enter the body through a wound in the skin.
Of those people who carry staph, most carry it in their noses but community-based MRSA also can live in and around the anus and is passed between sexual partners.
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.
"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."
Staph infections often look like raised red dots on the skin. Left untreated, the areas can swell and fill with pus.
The best way to avoid infection is by washing the hands or genitals with soap and water, Diep said. |
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Milwaukiedave
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thepeel
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know why you would say "hmm", unless looking at the url of a photo is a clever thing for people from Milwaukee.
The pic is taken from this site. http://ispyshanghai.com/wdpress/ |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Milwaukie and Milwaukee are not the same place.
And yes, there was an implied intent beyond staring at a URL Mr. Sockpuppet. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:21 am Post subject: |
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And its not an STD. Its a common infection that is passes by normal physical contact (as well as sexual contact). There was a high school in Lebanon, USA that had dozens of MRSA infections and was the subject of a recent 60 Minutes show.
But it is good that the word is getting out. Recently a contestant on Project Runway had to quit so that he could be treated for a MRSA infection in his nose. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
Milwaukie and Milwaukee are not the same place.
And yes, there was an implied intent beyond staring at a URL Mr. Sockpuppet. |
Sockpuppet eh? Haven't we already been through this? Maybe something in the water in Milwaukie made you dense? |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
And its not an STD. Its a common infection that is passes by normal physical contact (as well as sexual contact). There was a high school in Lebanon, USA that had dozens of MRSA infections and was the subject of a recent 60 Minutes show.
But it is good that the word is getting out. Recently a contestant on Project Runway had to quit so that he could be treated for a MRSA infection in his nose. |
I changed the title from "New HIV" (which was the way drudge phrased it) to "new std" cause the other one sounded alarmist. |
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Czarjorge
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Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Man, the back door just can't win. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:49 am Post subject: |
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That seems to be the case. But in the article the distinction was made:
"...having sex that abrades the skin".
So, if you like to top/bottom then just lube up to all hell, use a rubber and all should be ok. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:33 am Post subject: |
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The disease can be spread by shaking hands, the Lebanon football team passed it around not by buggering each other (that we know of) but from normal everyday contact.
The seeming Gay men connection is a result of our constant naked contact (what can I say, we like to have sex) with other men.
However, this is not a gay disease, its more prevalent in the mainstream population as a whole. Going to a hospital makes you more likely to get this disease than anything else.
So here is the link to the 60 Minutes from last month:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/30/60minutes/main614935.shtml
And Drudge is a Douche.
Sorry, an edit. The disease is not spread through sex, its spread through skin to skin contact, handshakes, hugging, kissing, sharing a bed, cuddling, etc etc etc. This is an STD in the same way as TB would be, I mean if you make out with someone with TB you could catch it. Same thing here. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Yes, you are right. But it is being spread through sex and gay men in San Fran have a 13x more likely chance to get it. Like HIV, there is no use in pretending that the acts gay men tend to participate in aren't inherently more risky due to the higher rate of "sex that abrades the skin".
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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. |
13x is quite a lot. I know you get sensitive about stuff like this, but 13 times. That is a very large difference. You can get it by shaking hands, but putting a bare *beep* in an unlubricated man's arse is a more efficient means of transmission. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| pen.is is caught by the swear filter? Are we 5? |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:47 am Post subject: |
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Don't get me wrong, I am glad that the CDC and others are warning Gay men this time (the Republican nutjobs of the 80's let HIV spread out of control cause Jesus talked to them) around.
But, like the 60 Minutes piece shows, it is important for everyone in any communal type activity be on the lookout for signs of infection.
Please, everyone (even if you hate my guts) watch the 60 Minutes piece and tell others so that people are aware of it.
And Grudge is still a douche.
But you Peel, are not. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| Drudge is a douche. But his site is my starting point of the day. Force of habit. |
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