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Is it an injustice to the general public if it too could pay for the behavior of others ? I find this article very disturbing! Where is freedom if there is no responsibility towards others?
Internationally known infectious disease specialist Dr. John Diggs is siding with the conservatives. The Massachusetts-based physician said treating any infection in a politically correct manner could be dangerous. Treating MRSA that way could prove fatal.
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“This outbreak is especially troubling because it is a community-based form of MRSA,” said Diggs, who is an executive committee member of the Physicians Consortium. “Until recently, MRSA has typically been confined to hospitals. The implications are very serious, because we don’t know exactly where this is going to go.”
*You can take something that was relatively isolated in a small place, and suddenly, **when it spreads to the general population, things such as school wrestling matches, or football games or basketball games or other sporting events, *can take on a specter - they can become deadly," he added.
Medically speaking, any break in the skin that is exposed to the organism can then set off an infection, which can destroy “a lot of tissue” before it’s brought under control, Diggs said.
*The fact is, the epicenter for this outbreak is among men who are having sex with men, Diggs told Cybercast News Service. Researchers identified the rates of drug resistance on the basis of ZIP codes, *not ideology.
“The particular ZIP codes they looked at were ones that were associated primarily with men who were having sex with other men,” he said, “the Castro district in San Francisco and also a healthcare center called the Fenway, here in Massachusetts, in Boston.”
*Diggs noted that the study itself pointed out that the infection manifests as “an abscess in the buttocks, genitals or perineum” and concluded that it “probably started out in San Francisco, and has been disseminated by the frequent cross-coastal travel” of homosexual men traveling from San Francisco to Boston. *
*“Men who practice anal sex, men who have promiscuous sex, men who have multiple partners in short periods of time are much more likely to spread this disease,” he said. "It’s not because of who they are. *It’s because of that they do."
*“Now I know that a lot of people have attacked those who have brought this to people’s attention **as being homophobic, **but **the real issue **- and you have to face the facts - **is that men who have sex with men have very high rates of sexually transmitted disease,” **Diggs said. *
*“When you face that reality, then you have to start taking a serious look and deciding **that the best public health intervention is to discourage behavior that causes the infection to spread.” *
The biggest problem with this new strain - as with any variant of MRSA, Diggs said,*** is that it is increasingly difficult** to find drugs that will effectively combat the problem. *
The study appears in the online version of The Annals of Internal Medicine.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080126a.html
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Is it an injustice to the general public if it too could pay for the behavior of others ? I find this article very disturbing! Where is freedom if there is no responsibility towards others?
Internationally known infectious disease specialist Dr. John Diggs is siding with the conservatives. The Massachusetts-based physician said treating any infection in a politically correct manner could be dangerous. Treating MRSA that way could prove fatal.
.
“This outbreak is especially troubling because it is a community-based form of MRSA,” said Diggs, who is an executive committee member of the Physicians Consortium. “Until recently, MRSA has typically been confined to hospitals. The implications are very serious, because we don’t know exactly where this is going to go.”
*You can take something that was relatively isolated in a small place, and suddenly, **when it spreads to the general population, things such as school wrestling matches, or football games or basketball games or other sporting events, *can take on a specter - they can become deadly," he added.
Medically speaking, any break in the skin that is exposed to the organism can then set off an infection, which can destroy “a lot of tissue” before it’s brought under control, Diggs said.
*The fact is, the epicenter for this outbreak is among men who are having sex with men, Diggs told Cybercast News Service. Researchers identified the rates of drug resistance on the basis of ZIP codes, *not ideology.
“The particular ZIP codes they looked at were ones that were associated primarily with men who were having sex with other men,” he said, “the Castro district in San Francisco and also a healthcare center called the Fenway, here in Massachusetts, in Boston.”
*Diggs noted that the study itself pointed out that the infection manifests as “an abscess in the buttocks, genitals or perineum” and concluded that it “probably started out in San Francisco, and has been disseminated by the frequent cross-coastal travel” of homosexual men traveling from San Francisco to Boston. *
*“Men who practice anal sex, men who have promiscuous sex, men who have multiple partners in short periods of time are much more likely to spread this disease,” he said. "It’s not because of who they are. *It’s because of that they do."
*“Now I know that a lot of people have attacked those who have brought this to people’s attention **as being homophobic, **but **the real issue **- and you have to face the facts - **is that men who have sex with men have very high rates of sexually transmitted disease,” **Diggs said. *
*“When you face that reality, then you have to start taking a serious look and deciding **that the best public health intervention is to discourage behavior that causes the infection to spread.” *
The biggest problem with this new strain - as with any variant of MRSA, Diggs said,*** is that it is increasingly difficult** to find drugs that will effectively combat the problem. *
The study appears in the online version of The Annals of Internal Medicine.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200801/CUL20080126a.html
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