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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.

alright alright alright - quit making sense. sheesh. every party has a...

all your points are valid. I am unreasonably fearful of tissue necrotising fascitis - its out there waiting for me, I know it. My friends in ID think I am nuts. So stories like these get me edgy.

Agricillin, Agrimycin, plus all the apparatus needed to set it up. In case my dog gets cholera or something...
But please, don't wander in there all strung out and ask "Hey, dude, got some of that goracillin stuff?"