A drug-resistant strain of a deadly staph infection found in some U.S. hospitals is now spreading among homosexual men, researchers said
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
A conservative group has characterized the problem as the result of “unnatural behaviors.”
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2989, killed about 19,000 Americans in 2005 — most of them in hospitals, according a report published in October in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But now the infection is popping up outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles, according to Reuters.
“The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we have seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves ‘gay,’ said Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues with Concerned Women for America (CWA).
Active homosexual men in San Francisco are considered 13 times more likely to be infected with MRSA than heterosexuals, researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.”Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable,” Reuters quoted Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco who led the study, as saying. “That’s why we’re trying to spread the message of prevention,” he added.
“The human body is quite callous in how it handles mistreatment and the perversion of its natural functions,” said Barber. “When two men mimic the act of heterosexual intercourse with one another, they create an environment, a biological counterfeit, wherein disease can thrive. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences.”
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