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Title: SF gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph
Post by: Natasha on January 15, 2008, 12:49:43 AM
SF gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNI5UE0L8.DTL
01/14/2008

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. ...

>if the above link doesn't work, try any of these:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/health/15infe.html?ref=science

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jat90qIo6X0ZBnvDTDLiONZ7WzYQ

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN13371758