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==Gay Plague==

==Gay Plague==

The '''New Gay Plague''' is a term used by those who observed that a particularly virulent strain of the disease (different strain of the disease as described above) was spreading through [[San Francisco]]'s large homosexual community in early 2008.<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080126a.html]</ref>  The rate of MRSA infection in this community (1.7 in 1000)[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNI5UE0L8.DTL] is six times that of the general population and they are much more likely to contract this strain of MRSA [http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/0000605-200802190-00204v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=mrsa&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT]. The study estimated that 1 in 588 residents living within the Castro neighborhood 94114 ZIP code area is infected with that variant, which is resistant to six types of commonly used antibiotics. The risk of contracting this difficult-to-treat bug ''is 13 times greater for gay men'' than for the rest of the city's population, researchers found.[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNI5UE0L8.DTL]

The '''New Gay Plague''' is a term used by those who observed that a particularly virulent strain of the disease (different strain of the disease as described above) was spreading through [[San Francisco]]'s large homosexual community in early 2008.<ref>Homosexuals Squelch Facts About MRSA Outbreak[http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080126a.html]</ref>  The rate of MRSA infection in this community (1.7 in 1000)[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNI5UE0L8.DTL] is six times that of the general population and they are much more likely to contract this strain of MRSA [http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/0000605-200802190-00204v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=mrsa&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT]. The study estimated that 1 in 588 residents living within the Castro neighborhood 94114 ZIP code area is infected with that variant, which is resistant to six types of commonly used antibiotics. The risk of contracting this difficult-to-treat bug ''is 13 times greater for gay men'' than for the rest of the city's population, researchers found.[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNI5UE0L8.DTL]

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