there is an article in today's NYT? that reports that the MRSAUSA300 is a major health threat.
After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men, University Scrambles to Clarify
By JESSE McKINLEY
SAN FRANCISCO ? In a matter of days, it jumped from a routine press release to a medical controversy.
On Monday, a team of researchers led by doctors from the University of California at San Francisco announced that gay men were ?many times more likely than others? to acquire a new strain of drug-resistant staphylococcus, a nasty, fast-spreading and potential lethal bacteria known as MRSA USA300. And sure enough, the study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was quickly picked up by reporters round the world and across the Internet, including a London tabloid which dubbed the disease ?the new H.I.V.?
Since this is a copyrighted article, I cannot produce it here...go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/us/20castro.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
For the complete article.
HOW is this related to the DR?
1) We talked about it in relation to DrChrisMD and her spider bites. Cobraboy mentioned a bout of this from contaminated gym equipment, and we have gyms here.
2) There is sizable homosexual population in the DR that do read these pages and should know about the risks.
HB
After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men, University Scrambles to Clarify
By JESSE McKINLEY
SAN FRANCISCO ? In a matter of days, it jumped from a routine press release to a medical controversy.
On Monday, a team of researchers led by doctors from the University of California at San Francisco announced that gay men were ?many times more likely than others? to acquire a new strain of drug-resistant staphylococcus, a nasty, fast-spreading and potential lethal bacteria known as MRSA USA300. And sure enough, the study, published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was quickly picked up by reporters round the world and across the Internet, including a London tabloid which dubbed the disease ?the new H.I.V.?
Since this is a copyrighted article, I cannot produce it here...go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/us/20castro.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
For the complete article.
HOW is this related to the DR?
1) We talked about it in relation to DrChrisMD and her spider bites. Cobraboy mentioned a bout of this from contaminated gym equipment, and we have gyms here.
2) There is sizable homosexual population in the DR that do read these pages and should know about the risks.
HB