Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex

[Roon]

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."
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1337175820080114?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true

[SPKrazy]

1. heh, got news for them

it is in the general population already

i dunno about it being spread by gay men... it seems to have spread outside of hospitals easy enough already.

[Radical Activist]

2. It was reported in the Annals huh?

huh huh

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Oh goody. omething else to blame on gay people.

:eyes:

My straight cousin in SF was diagnosed with MRSA several months ago...