[Kay Soze]

To comply with rules for posting LA Times articles I have limited my post to less than 1/5th of the entire article. - - - - Please be careful as now its job one of act up and homosexual activities to now spread this disease to the heterosexual population as quickly as possible.

Other wise we may one day realize why homosexuality is so very dangerous.

Homosexuals will forever be the ones to introduce and or accelerate the rate of infectious diseases into the human population.

[sheik yerbouty]

There is always the miracle drug, Trinoasitol. Very effective.

[Tall_Texan]

So there IS a "gay plague"??

How timely.

[martianagent]

Dwight Eisenhower's theory wrt safe sex was that nobody ever caught any sort of a social disease while playing golf. Sounds like somebody needs to teach the idiots out in California about Golf...

[ex-Texan]

The infection, which causes nasty-looking boils, deep abscesses and widespread surrounding inflammation, has proved impervious to common antibiotics *** it appears to be spread primarily by skin-to-skin contact, including sex *** [it may also] be contracted at health clubs, steam rooms and other warm, moist environments ***

All boils are nasty but some are more nasty than others.

[dawn53]

A form of drug resistant Staph is very common in hospitals and nursing homes. It mostly affects the elderly and patients recovering from surgery.

Probably the gay men that are getting this are immune compromised.

Here's a link about MRSA, the kind of staph that's common in hospitals.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/ARESIST/mrsafaq.htm

[Hans]

Please, please. I am of tender years. Should I be
hearing of this nasty business?

[GLDNGUN]

Homosexual activity leads to disease and death, while monogamous heterosexual activity leads to life. Forget God, NATURE abhors homosexuality.

[classmuse500]

BUMP

Should they be considered a national health risk?

[Endeavor]

Look, antibiotic resistant staph could have resulted through any of a number of means, including the overuse of antibiotics for routine stuff by your very own physician, or your veterinarian, or the farmer down the road or because you demand that your doc give your kids an antibiotic because they have a cold.

You ever been in farm and ranch stores? They sell penicillin.

Seems to me this has shown up in the gay population due to several factors - their population group tends to be immunosupressed, they tend to have lots of sex with lots of partners -- allowing the organism to be easily spread on contact -- any contact, they tend to be on various rounds of antibiotics due to their susceptibility to infection (so do transplant patients and people undergoing chemo).

I don't condone their activities, but if you're trying to blame antibiotic-resistant organisms on homosexuality alone, then you might want to learn a bit more about microbiology.

Have they contributed to it? We don't know yet, but probably not any more than the other factors I've listed above.

[AngryJawa]

Another case of nature discriminating against homosexuals.

[robertpaulsen]

Any "bug chasers" or "gift givers" for this?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Seems like it's always something with these people.Sorry,but they've known all along what they were getting into.

[2timothy3.16]

large, painful skin infections started turning up early last fall among local gay men, then appeared with increasing frequency over the ensuing weeks and months. Although doctors found the symptoms alarming, it took a while to confirm a connection between these cases. Now they know they're facing an emerging epidemic of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or, more simply, staph. Although the outbreak seems confined primarily to gay men

So, tell me, what's so gay about the homosexual life style? Sounds really gay, get sodomized, come down with large, painful skin infections, get aids, die a slow and lingering death and this they call it the 'gay' lifestyle?

[grimalkin]

Abnormal behavior and its consequences.

[Fred Hayek]

My first thought was one of the plagues in Revelations

[DainBramage]

Staphylococcus

Who said anything about us? Your the ones who do it.

[Jorge]

Homosexuals will forever be the ones to introduce and or accelerate the rate of infectious diseases into the human population.

Not to defend homosexual promiscuity...but the article says this sort of infection was a problem for a long time in nuring home environments before it ever showed up among gays.
Somehow I doubt the nursing home residents were spreading it by homosexual behavior.

[syriacus]

Doctors treating it caution that it could also be contracted at health clubs, steam rooms and other warm, moist environments.

Sounds like we should blame global warming for this.