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   that work by developing new and deadly STDs to kill yourselves with.   
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   New Bacteria Strain Is Striking Gay Men   
      
   By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN   
   Published: January 15, 2008   
      
   A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the “flesh-eating” MRSA   
   bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston,   
   researchers reported on Monday.   
      
   In a study published online by the journal Annals of Internal   
   Medicine, the bacteria seemed to be spread most easily through anal   
   intercourse but also through casual skin-to-skin contact and touching   
   contaminated surfaces.   
      
   The authors warned that unless microbiology laboratories were able to   
   identify the strain and doctors prescribed the proper antibiotic   
   therapy, the infection could soon spread among other groups and become   
   a wider threat.   
      
   The new strain seems to have “spread rapidly” in gay populations in   
   San Francisco and Boston, the researchers wrote, and “has the   
   potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination” among gay men.   
      
   The study was based on a review of medical records from outpatient   
   clinics in San Francisco and Boston and nine medical centers in San   
   Francisco.   
      
   The Castro district in San Francisco has the highest number of gay   
   residents in the country, according to the University of California,   
   San Francisco. One in 588 residents is infected with the new   
   multidrug-resistant MRSA strain, the study found. That compares with 1   
   in 3,800 people in San Francisco, according to statistical analyses   
   based on ZIP codes.   
      
   A separate part of the study found that gay men in San Francisco were   
   about 13 times more likely to be infected than other people in the   
   city.   
      
   The San Francisco researchers suggested that scrubbing with soap and   
   water might be the most effective way to stop skin-to-skin   
   transmission, particularly after sexual activities.   
      
   MRSA, for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was once spread   
   chiefly in hospitals. But in recent years, a number of healthy people   
   have acquired it outside hospitals.   
      
   Nearly 19,000 people died in the United States from MRSA infections in   
   2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported.   
      
   The infection can cause unusually severe problems, including abscesses   
   and skin ulcers. The bacteria can invade through the skin to produce   
   necrotizing fasciitis, giving them the popular name of flesh-eating   
   bacteria. They can also cause pneumonia, damage the heart and produce   
   widespread infection through the blood.   
      
   Among gay men in the study, MRSA was spread by skin contact, causing   
   abscesses and infection in the buttocks and genital area.   
      
   The new strain is closely related to earlier ones. Both are known as   
   MRSA USA300.   
      
   The strain is much more difficult to treat because it is resistant not   
   just to methicillin, but also many more of the antibiotics used to   
   treat the earlier strains, said Dr. Henry F. Chambers, an author of   
   the new study.   
      
   The new strain contains a plasmid called pUSA03.   
      
   “This particular clone is resistant to at least three other drugs,   
   clindamycin, tetracycline and mupirocin,” Dr. Chambers said in a   
   telephone interview.   
      
   Of the alternatives recommended by the C.D.C. and the Infectious   
   Diseases Society of America, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim),   
   clindamycin and a tetracycline, “this strain is resistant to two of   
   those three,” he added. “In addition, the new strain is resistant to   
   mupirocin, which has been advocated for eradicating the strain from   
   carriers.”   
      
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