My roommate told me about an article in yesterday's New York Times entitled "New Bacteria Strain Is Striking Gay Men". It's basically a bug called MRSA that is infecting the MSM population much more frequently than the general population. It does not appear to be dependent on HIV serostatus, but does appear to be at least partially linked to sexual activity.
Check out the article here.
This is obviously a bit worrisome for a few reasons:
1) Unsafe sex continues to be problematic in the MSM population (as well as the general pop.).
2) They didn't know much about HIV/AIDS when it first caught the public's eye; just knew that it was a mysterious infection more commonly found in the MSM population. That sounds a lot like what's going on here.
3) MRSA is not easy to treat (i.e. multi-drug resistant).
Very hopefully, more research will elucidate this situation and maybe it'll turn out to be not that big of a deal. My gut may tell me otherwise, though.
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I was also really bothered by this. It will be a big test of the CDC system to treat this with the seriousness it deserves in as urgent a manner as is necessary.
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