NYC Forum Adresses Rising HIV Rates, MRSA, The Media and Public Sex Venues

by villager | February 25, 2008 at 09:33 pm
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A standing-room only crowd packed an assembly hall at the LGBT Center in New York’s Greenwich Village on Thursday night, Feb. 21, for a lively town meeting to address a number of concerns facing the New York’s gay community.

Organizers called the forum "Staph, Bath and Beyond" a lighthearted reference the retailer, although moderator and Center director Dr Barbara Warren jokingly informed the mostly male audience that towels would not be on sale that night.

In truth, the forum sought to address HIV prevention, sensational reporting in the media surrounding new MRSA cases and finally, what to make of rumors that the city was reacting to these reports by considering a crackdown on public sex venues. The various speakers on the dais and men and women on the floor seemed united in their vehement opposition to the city shutting down sexual venues, whether bath houses, sex clubs or private impromptu sex parties.

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Spencer Jones

Actually, acquiring MRSA through sexual contact is easier than previously thought, but for heterosexuals as well as gays.

According to USA Today newspaper, "A virulent, drug-resistant form of staph bacteria that has spread across the USA since it was identified in 2000 can be spread by sexual activity, a mode of transmission that is 'important and previously unrecognized,' a new study says...Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center, reporting in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infections Diseases, identified three cases in which the bacterial known as community-associated MRSA passed between sexual partners."

The newspaper article went on to say, "The spread of MRSA through sexual activity has been seen by emergency room doctors, says James Roberts of Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia.  In a letter published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine in January, he reported treating a lap dancer for MRSA infections on her buttocks. 'She relayed that other lap dancers at her club had similar problems, considered a known occupational hazard by the women,' he wrote."

Fortunately, four recent medical studies have demonstrated that an inexpensive and completely natural substance called colloidal silver literally decimates MRSA infections. You can read a very interesting report that summarizes all four studies at http://www.ColloidalSilverCuresMRSA.com

 

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Shawn52

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, often pronounced "mersa") is a bacterium responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It may also be referred to as multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). MRSA is by definition a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to a large group of antibiotics called the beta-lactams, which include the penicillins and the cephalosporins.

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Shawn52

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, often pronounced "mersa") is a bacterium responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It may also be referred to as multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). MRSA is by definition a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to a large group of antibiotics called the beta-lactams, which include the penicillins and the cephalosporins.

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