Antibiotic-resistant superbug causes deadly skin boils

San Mateo County Times ^ | 2/10/2003 | Suzanne Bohan

[tort_feasor]

Beyond Islamic Terrorism this is what i fear most.

[goodnesswins]

"...a rise in the infections -- particularly among gay men -- in San Francisco..."

Well....we are all told to avoid "feces" of anything, mice droppings, etc.....but then there is one certain group that exposes itself to "feces" regularly......DUH! and DUMBER. And, to think the government does those silly "hand washing" signs and commercials.....looks like they need another type. RANT OFF.

[goodnesswins]

And, now I notice the article first says this infection is now "showing up in alarming numbers among the general public in California, according to health officials."

And, then, says "While no cases have yet been reported outside hospitals in Alameda County, a rise in the infections -- particularly among gay men -- in San Francisco."

It is NOT among the GENERAL population....it is a product, it looks like of DIRTY BEHAVIOR!

[IGNATIUS]

If they stick their member into sewer pipes until they finally become sick--- don't lean on the rest of us for sympathy.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

For a very interesting read, there is a new book out, "The Demon in the Freezer", by Richard Preston. He authored a nonfiction book several years ago called "The Hot Zone" about the mechanics of Ebola and how close it came to spreading here. This time, he writes about weaponized anthrax and smallpox (he didn't talk about these types of agents, but the spread is interesting - almost as if it were dispersed). It is spookier than hell. Bottom line is that in 1995, there was no question that the Iraqis had a facility for the manufacture of smallpox, and we wanted to destroy it, but the French objected because they built it. Apparently it would endanger their other commercial ventures in Iraq. My guess is that the Germans are neck deep in it, too.

[hgro]

Looks like the H.I.V. virus is rearing its ugly head in LA-LA land.

[goodnesswins]

BUT, but, WHY are they taking the antibiotics....because they "play" in feces.....

[trebb]

Hmmmm - Revelations mentions a plague of boils in times to come...

[TheDon]

What you do in the privacy of your own home, has no effect on me.
What you do in the privacy of your own home, has no effect on me.
What you do in the privacy of your own home, has no effect on me.
What you do in the privacy of your own home, has no effect on me.
What you do in the privacy of your own home, has no effect on me.

Yeah right!

[Tacis]

Oh, no!! Something else is attacking our brave fairies!! Can there be any question now about the unfortunate policy of keeping these valiant tinkerbells from the clean, fresh meat of the Boy Scouts?

Brave fairies, doomed to have sex with diseased fairies, are at risk and we must do everything we can to keep them from harm. How can there be any question that keeping them away from Boy Scouts does nothing but increase the risk?

[Greybird]

Not that YOU, a clean, moral, predestined-of-God heterosexual, have ANY chance of getting this virulent infection, of course, even though you may never go near a hospital with all those filthy Sodomites, so why bother doing anything about it? They're all scumbuckets, so they ought to be dead anyway, right? Just puts them out of our misery, right?

{/sarcasm OFF}

Once again, fresh, raw rhetorical meat for the virulent bigots around here to come out and chew on. I only wish this were a hair less predictable. I knew what the first ten replies would be in this thread before I saw them.

[and the horse you rode in on]

If they stick their member into sewer pipes until they finally become sick--- don't lean on the rest of us for sympathy.

I don't want them leaning on us for any reason. This stuff is contageous on contact.

I think the important point is that we need to consider all health clubs, gyms and public toilets "Hot Zones". Any place your flesh may touch a surface other's bare flesh has touched.

[Thorondir]

AIDS, destroyed children, and now this. Who says sodomites haven't contributed anything of lasting import to human society?

[glorgau]

Hmmm.....

Just like

[skinkinthegrass]

...the French objected because they built it.... and the french wonder, why the USA doesn't trust them.

[carlo3b]

Another AIDS/HIV, maybe worse, and perhaps airborne ...when will we say ENOUGH??? Quarantine the lot of these perverts, before we all die for their sins!!

[American Preservative]

FYI ping.

[oceanperch]

pictures?

[carlo3b]

A little over a year ago, a teacher at my sons school was giving out extra credits to kids that would volunteer at a local Hospice center, overwhelmingly stacked with these poor fatally ill AIDS sufferers!  She, a lesbian, lead them to believe that they those who went were somehow much better than those who refused!  This ...a typical ploy, raising the bar on compassion, and lowering the bar on morality!
Some kids that were borderline students felt they had to go to either earn the extra credits, or at least boost themselves  in the eye of their teacher. I went to the principal and demanded that this teacher get a permission slip from the parents of the students that she was illegally shuffling back and forth to this hospital... It did not a bit of good, so I went to the school board president and it was stopped within the same hour!
The problem with AIDS, is that the disease is one of an absence of the body's ability to fight off any type of attack from within or airborne.. thus the resurgence of TB.. etc that was all but extinguished worldwide 20 years ago.
My problem was grounded in Science, not bigotry or homophobia, it was my natural defense of children, a duty and normal reaction born in the fabric of a man, and father.