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<b>Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus</b> is an infectious disease first seen in the UK in 1961. [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=321690].  The disease declined in the 1970's but re-emerged in hospitals in Eastern Australia in the late 1970's. [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no02/05-0454.htm].  A global epidemic that has been growing in prevalence over the last forty years, the condition occurs most frequently among persons in hospitals and healthcare facilities who have weakened immune systems.  The disease is also seen among athletes, military recruits, children, Pacific Islanders, Alaskan Natives, Native Americans, gay men, and prisoners, among others.[http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa_ca_clinicians.html]

<b>Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus</b> is an infectious disease first seen in the UK in 1961. [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=321690].  The disease declined in the 1970's but re-emerged in hospitals in Eastern Australia in the late 1970's. [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no02/05-0454.htm].  A global epidemic that has been growing in prevalence over the last forty years, the condition occurs most frequently among persons in hospitals and healthcare facilities who have weakened immune systems.  The disease is also seen among athletes, military recruits, children, Pacific Islanders, Alaskan Natives, Native Americans, gay men, and prisoners, among others.[http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa_ca_clinicians.html]  In a July 2007 study, the infection rate in US hospitals was 46.3 patients in every 1,000.  This rate is 8-11 times greater than previously estimated.[http://www.apic.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ResearchFoundation/NationalMRSAPrevalenceStudy/APIC_MRSA_STUDY_EXEC.pdf]

 

The '''New Gay Plague''' is a term for this disease used by some who observe that the disease is spreading through [[San Francisco]]'s [[homosexual community]] in early 2008.<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080126a.html]</ref>  Homosexual men are 13 to 14 times more likely to contract this strain of MRSA than the general population.[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNI5UE0L8.DTL], though the rate of infection in this community (1.7 in 1000) is much lower than that of the community of patients in US hospitals (46.3 in 1000).[http://www.apic.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ResearchFoundation/NationalMRSAPrevalenceStudy/APIC_MRSA_STUDY_EXEC.pdf]

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