Posted on Fri, 12/02/2005 - 11:24 — by Ohso
'Ope-Fra' Discovers Aids Bug Chasing - Conspiracy Theorists ask - is the CC Times Next?
For those who believe as a matter of fundamental bedrock faith (as does your correspondent) that the phrase As Seen on Television is indeed the Ultimate Validation of every Great Truth (or cheap advertising gimmick) known to humanity; I further submit that in turn the phrase As Seen on Oprah (even my spell checker recognizes her name) must serve as the platinum standard for all that is good and true and colored purple.
Thus it is indeed telling that during this special political season of pro-homosex Aids story spinning (e.g. it is all the fault of impoverished heterosexual Sub-Saharan Africans, flying in by economy class to visit bathhouses in the Castro) that Oprah chose to present (11/28/05) to the Audience at Home the story of a reforming Aids Infectious, Methamphetamine addicted 25 year old Homo-Anal Bareback buggery fan named Jay.
Or - As posted on Opes own website: To satisfy his meth-induced sexual
cravings, Jay would frequent all-male bathhouses."These bathhouses are dark, cavernous, multi-level facilities," Jay says. "They have larger dark rooms with just platforms and benches and chairs where you can't really see who you're having sex with. You're groping and grabbing and fondling one another in the dark." I would be so high it would be nothing for me to be with 15, 20, 25 men in a night." "It was never part of my agenda to practice safe sex. Wearing condoms is the rare thing when you're high on crystal meth."
What was omitted from the website but not from the broadcast was his discussion of the intersection of several trends in the homo-anal population, including the combination of Methamphetamine and drugs like Viagra with homosex ifestyle behaviors such as Barebacking and Bug Chasing; to which Oprah announced her wide eyed surprise. In this she seemed almost as clueless as the CC Times News / Editorial staff are about STD spread in places such as Sodom by the Sea, turning their notoriously myopic blind eye to events like the Annual Folsom Street fair. Link = Folsom's flesh and fantasy / S.F.'s wildest street fair marks 20 years of leather, charity
What Jay pointed out is that for those who like their Homo-Anal Behaviors Raw and Dirty (full fecal contact) as is the case with the Bareback lifestyle; deliberately becoming infected with Aids removes any inhibitions as to multiple partners, as well as any need for barriers like condoms which might interfere with the sensations (sight, smell, touch, taste…) sought after. Consider the following from a long ago daytime talk show:
Tuesday December 2, 2003 BUG CHASING: DELIBERATELY GETTING INFECTED WITH HIV Today, we focus on a fascinating yet disturbing phenomenon that is truly shocking. Its a growing trend sometimes referred to as bug chasing, which describes people who want to deliberately infect themselves with the HIV virus.
Although common among gay men, its not 100% exclusive to the gay community, and its a frightening reality that there are really people out there hunting down the virus and intentionally becoming infected. Even more shocking, there is a hidden culture of people called gift givers, the people that infect a bug chasera with the gift of HIV.
First, we meet Doug Hitzel, who is just 21 years old and HIV-positive. Doug is the focus of a documentary film called The Gift. At 19 years old, Doug became a bug chaser and actively pursued becoming infected with HIV. He felt that becoming HIV positive would allow him to feel like he was a part of a community, and it didnt seem like a big deal anyway just take a few pills and itll be just finw.
Andreas Wesley works with CBC News in Canada. Andreas says before he did an investigative piece for the show Disclosure, he didnt think bug chasers really existed. But after weeks of research, he was shocked to learn that there are many people out there who are actively trying to get infected with HIV. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It is interesting to note, if not particularly noteworthy, that the despite all the stories and editorials and harangues and homosex rants published in the CC Times about the Aids pandemic, the above never seems to get mentioned..
Even though they can look across the bay during the Folsom bd&sm festival and watch it not just going on, but creating ever newer drug resistant strains to spread around the world. Thus I join with the responsible media everywhere (or was that anywhere?) including those occasionally vigilant but more often simply outraged watchdogs at the CC Times in saying: Darn those Impoverished Heterosexual Sub Saharan Africans for following the example of Impoverished Heterosexual Haitians before them and first creating and then flying new strains of the Aids virus around the world.
And then going and blaming it all on those who are only light hearted and showy in a most gay way. At least thats how it plays if you read the editorial page. I think that Somebody ought to report about this. Any Noble Media Watchdogs at the soon to be auctioned to the highest bidder Knight Ridder paper chain got the scent? Woof!
Ohso. Not merely the validity of experience but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. George Orwell 1984 On the Thought Police.
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Anti Diversionary Tactics
The Old Media report on the failure of the latest Aids Vaccine once again ignores the Basic Facts of the Disease in the West - where Three of Every Four New Aids Cases are the direct result of transmission between the Coprophile Cult of Feces Focused Homo-Anal Perversions.
Amongst these New Cases, many if not most are already Treatment Resistant, meaning that the source was probably using Aids Drugs already, and probably Tax Subsidized ones at that. The bulk of the remainder of cases are found amongst needle sharing junkies and prostitutes - not that the categories are mutually exclusive.
Rather than acknowledge that the Best Way to Prevent Aids is to break the Chain of Infection - also known as the 'Conga Line of Buggery', the demand is instead that society divert Taxes from other Diseases that are Not Contracted by Choice of Behavior - and instead spend whatever it takes to make the world safe for Homo-Anal Buggery, even though it is an Inherently Pathological Behavior.
Best keep quiet about it - wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia", what with everything else going around and all.
Ohso
Not merely the validity of experience but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. George Orwell - 1984 On the Thought Police
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AIDS vaccine doesn't guard against virus
By LINDA A. JOHNSON AP Business Writer 11/07/2007
TRENTON, N.J.—New data on an experimental AIDS vaccine that failed to work shows volunteers who got the shots were far more likely to get infected with the virus through sex or other risky behavior than those who got dummy shots...
... Only one woman and a small number of heterosexual men were infected.
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Crossed the Final Boundary
Although I missed reporting of it in any of the Dead Tree editions of the 'news' paper, the net carried this AP Wirehead report of yet another 'doctor' using his position to Sexually Molest Males, not unlike the former head of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Ayers). However, the details are sketchy as to just who and how old the victims were, and likely to remain that way if our Old Media 'watchdogs' have any say.
Like their Heavily Censored treatment of the Boy Raping Homo-Anal Chicken Hawk / Pederast - 'beat poet' Allen Ginsberg (a founder and dignitary of 'Nambla' - the north amerikan man boy homosex rape assc.) our guardians of the press try to play down and spin away, if not outright censor, all Ungood Facts about such forced recruitment in to the 'gay' life via Homosex Rape and Molestation. What is unique about this article is that unlike the Ginsberg stories it actually did make mention of his background as a Homosex Molester - but only as an afterthought following Praise for his Homosex Activism
Best keep quiet about it - wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia"...What with everything else going around and all.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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R. Scott Hitt, prominent AIDS and gay rights activist, dies at 49 - By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press Writer 11/08/2007
LOS ANGELES—Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49... Hitt was chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS during President Clinton's administration in the 1990s.... Hitt focused his activism on gay and lesbian issues. He continued practicing as an AIDS doctor until he was hit by allegations in 2000 that he sexually molested two male patients.
Hitt, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, acknowledged touching one patient inappropriately and "crossing a boundary" with another patient.... He later gave up his medical license after being arrested for investigation of possessing a controlled substance...
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Myopic Watchdog Focus
The Old Media has decided to focus on Chlamydia in the Heterosex population as the topic of the latest STD Report from the CDC - and why not, given their heavy bias in favor of promoting Homo-Anal Perversions as a 'lifestyle' that we all must pander to in the name of a sham of 'tolerance'... And the corresponding need to avoid mention of the ever increasing prevalence of Treatment Resistant STDs (like Rectal Gonorrhea) resulting from the ongoing 'Conga Line of Buggery' that characterizes said Homo-Anal behaviors.
The Frisco Crock reported on the story, but omitted any mention of the Homosex angle, and the Times / MediaNews article did make a minor mention of what they euphemistically refer to as 'MSM' (Homo-Anal Buggery) - as again leading the way in New Strains of Syphilis... But such is only to be expected - given their reluctance to report on the fact that Three of Every Four New Aids cases are the direct result of transmission between the Coprophile Cult of Feces Focused Homo-Anal Perversions, most of which are already Treatment Resistant and often include the Clap as a Freebie add on.
The 'lifestyle' combination of Methamphetamine, Viagra and Pathological behaviors common to this group has made a mockery of 'Aids treatment' programs, and long been known as a primary factor in the creation of new strains by making Homo-Anal Males 'well' enough (often using Tax subsidized Meds) to spread more disease to newer partners in the Same Old Way...
My - how tolerant of them.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Click Here: Check out "Men Who Have Sex with Men - STD Surveillance 2006"
U.S. CDC 2006: Men Who Have Sex with Men - Public Health Impact
Data from several U.S. cities and projects, including syphilis outbreak investigations and the GISP suggest that an increasing number of MSM are acquiring STDs.1-7 Data also suggest that an increasing number of MSM engage in sexual behaviors that place them at risk for STDs and HIV infection.
Several factors may be contributing to this change, including the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for HIV infection.
Because STDs and the behaviors associated with acquiring them increase the likelihood of acquiring and transmitting HIV infection,10 the rise in STDs among MSM may be associated with an increase in HIV diagnoses among MSM.11
Observations
Most nationally notifiable STD surveillance data reported to CDC do not include information regarding sexual behaviors; therefore, national trends in STDs among MSM in the United States are not currently available.
Data from enhanced surveillance projects are presented in this section to provide information regarding STDs in MSM.
Monitoring Trends in Prevalence of STDs, HIV and Risk Behaviors among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM Prevalence Monitoring Project), STD Clinics, 1999-2006...
In 2006, median HIV prevalence among MSM, including persons previously known to be HIV-positive and persons testing HIV-positive at their current visit, was 12% (range: 10-16%)...
In recent years, MSM have accounted for an increasing number of estimated syphilis cases in the United States15 and in 2006 accounted for 64% of P&S syphilis cases in the United States based on information reported from 29 states and Washington, D.C.16
Additional information on syphilis can be found in the Syphilis section (National Profile).
Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP)
The GISP, a collaborative project among selected STD clinics, was established in 1986 to monitor trends in antimicrobial susceptibilities of strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the United States.17,18
GISP also reports the percentage of N. gonorrhoeae isolates obtained from MSM. Overall, the proportion of isolates from MSM in GISP clinics increased steadily from 4% in 1988 to 21.5% in 2006 (Figure Z). Additional information on GISP may be found in the Gonorrhea section (National Profile).
The proportion of isolates coming from MSM varies geographically with the largest percentage from the West Coast (Figure AA).
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gonorrhea among men who have sex with men – selected sexually transmitted disease clinics, 1993–1996. MMWR 1997;46:889-92.
2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Resurgent bacterial sexually transmitted disease among men who have sex with men – King County, Washington, 1997–1999. MMWR 1999;48:773-7.
3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreak of syphilis among men who have sex with men – Southern California, 2000. MMWR 2001;50:117-20.
4 Fox KK, del Rio C, Holmes K, et. al. Gonorrhea in the HIV era: A reversal in trends among men who have sex with men. Am J Public Health 2001;91:959-964.
5 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Primary and secondary syphilis among men who have sex with men – New York City, 2001. MMWR 2002;51:853-6.
6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Primary and secondary syphilis – United States, 2003–2004. MMWR 2006;55:269-73.
7 Beltrami JF, Shouse RL, Blake PA. Trends in infectious diseases and the male to female ratio: possible clues to changes in behavior among men who have sex with men. AIDS Educ Prev 2005;17:S49-S59.
8 Stall R, Hays R, Waldo C, Ekstrand M, McFarland W. The gay ‘90s: a review of research in the 1990s on sexual behavior and HIV risk among men who have sex with men. AIDS 2000;14:S1-S14.
9 Scheer S, Chu PL, Klausner JD, Katz MH, Schwarcz SK. Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases in people with AIDS. Lancet 2001;357:432-5.
10 Fleming DT, Wasserheit JN. From epidemiologic synergy to public health policy and practice: the contribution of other sexually transmitted diseases to sexual transmission of HIV infection. Sex Transm Infect 1999;75:3-17.
11 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2003, (Vol. 15). Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2004.
12 Renault CA, Hall C, Kent CK, Klausner JD. Use of NAATs for STD diagnosis of GC and CT in non-FDA-cleared anatomic specimens. MLO Med Lab Obs 2006; 38(7):10, 12-6, 21-2.
13 Jespersen DJ, Flatten KS, Jones MF, Smith TF. Prospective comparison of cell cultures and nucleic acid amplification tests for laboratory diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis Infections. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43(10):5324-6.
14 Helms DJ, Weinstock HS, et. al. Increases in syphilis among men who have sex with men attending STD clinics, 2000-2005. In: program and abstracts of the 17 Biennial meeting of the ISSTDR, Seattle, WA, July 29-August 1, 2007 [abstract P-608].
15 Heffelfinger JD, Swint EB, Berman SM, Weinstock HS. Trends in primary and secondary syphilis among men who have sex with men in the United States. Am J Public Health 2007;97:1076-1083
16 Beltrami JF, Weinstock HS. Primary and secondary syphilis among men who have sex with men in the United States, 2005. In: program and abstracts of the 17 Biennial meeting of the ISSTDR, Seattle, WA, July 29-August 1, 2007 [abstract O-069].
17 Schwarcz S, Zenilman J, Schnell D, et. al. National Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. JAMA 1990; 264(11): 1413-1417.
18 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2006 Supplement: Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) Annual Report 2006. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (available first quarter 2008).
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Transmission Factors
Our local Old Dead Tree Media 'watchdogs' seem to have avoided mention of the 'Transmission Factors' involved in this story- but then we wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia"... What with everything else going around and all... Ohso
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Click Here: Check out "cbs2chicago.com - 4 Organ Recipients Infected With HIV"
Recipients Infected With HIV
First Time HIV Has Been Spread In Organ Transplants Since 1985
CHICAGO (CBS) — There are new questions about the safety -- and risks -- of organ donation. As CBS 2 Medical Editor Mary Ann Childers reports, this comes after four patients at three Chicago hospitals got HIV – which causes AIDS – after receiving infected donor organs...
The United Network for Organ Sharing says the Centers for Disease Control also requires a medical history and lifestyle questionnaire. The CDC guidelines advise excluding high-risk patients from organ and tissue donation, "unless the risk to the recipient of not performing the transplant is deemed greater than the risk of HIV transmission and disease."
"Since 1994, the CDC has required screening for all high risk donors. This is the first case of HIV since 1994," said Joel Newman of United Network for Organ Sharing.
It was known the Illinois donor had engaged in high-risk behaviors. The CDC says those include sex between men and intravenous drug use.
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10% Kinseyish
The following story reprints the scam by Sado Masochstic Boy Rapist Kinsey (the 'father. of Boy Rape as Sex Science) that 10% of the population is homosex.... And claims about 10% of them have Aids...
Which would mean that about 1% of the population does...
Give or take a few New - Treatment Resistant cases... Not that our Old Dead Tree Media 'watchdogs' would notice... Probably too busy following the Times / MediaNews lead hawking videos of Nambla Boy Rapist / 'beat poet' Allen Ginsberg.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Click Here: Check out "1 in 22 gay, bisexual men in Florida has HIV, study says -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com"
1 in 22 gay, bisexual men in Florida has HIV, study says By Bob LaMendola |South Florida Sun-Sentinel
November 14, 2007
Hoping to call attention to the extent of HIV/AIDS among gay men, state health officials said Tuesday that an estimated 1 in 22 gay and bisexual men in Florida had the virus last year, an infection rate that dwarfs any other group.
HIV has struck some areas of the gay community even harder, with rates as high as 1 in 11 among gay white men in Broward County, 1 in 13 gay black men in Palm Beach County and 1 in 12 gay Hispanic men in Miami-Dade County, officials said. By comparison, in the least affected group, 1 in 1,625 white women had the virus.
AIDS activists who gathered in Wilton Manors to hear the new report challenged the methods behind the new estimate, but universally agreed the virus is not declining among gays as hoped. They called on officials and one another to find new ways to stress the message of safe sex.
Related links
• Estimated number of gay and bisexual men living with HIV/AIDS in Florida
"Obviously, our programs are not working the way we would like," said Lorenzo Robinson of the Palm Beach County Health Department, the state's coordinator for gay black men.
High rates of HIV/AIDS among gay men is not new in South Florida, which persistently remains one of the nation's epicenters for the disease...
...activists said many gay men do not practice safer sex, for many reasons: A cavalier belief that new drugs have made HIV a manageable disease instead of a killer; rebellion against safer-sex after years of sexual fear; abuse of party drugs; lack of safe-sex knowledge among younger males, and denial caused by stigma against homosexuality.
"There's no gay man who doesn't know having unprotected sex can lead to HIV. But sometimes they ignore it, and that's what we have not been able to address,"...
.. with young gay men meeting others on the Internet to organize high-risk sex parties...
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Warning over HIV rise in gay men
Rates of HIV infection in gay men continued to rise in 2006,
following a steady increase year-on-year since 2003, latest figures have revealed.
The increase in HIV cases is identified in a report which says that efforts to reduce sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are not succeeding overall...
"In recent years we have seen steady increases in all STIs, including HIV, in gay men and since 2003 the number of HIV diagnoses reported annually has consistently increased and exceeded the annual number of diagnoses throughout the 1980s and 1990s," said Dr Valerie Delpech,
HPA head of HIV surveillance.
The HPA's report, Testing Times, says that current efforts to stop HIV and STI transmission in gay men are not succeeding adequately.
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Soon - Like in Canada, it will be a Thought Crime to even tell the truth about the links between Homo-Anal Perversions and STD Spread... Not that the media does much in that area anyway, preferring to blame impoverished third worlders for the consequences of the Bathouse scene in Sodom by the Sea... Ohso
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IVA:
If you want another reason why we must fight hate crimes laws and discrimination laws that provide special protections based on sexual orientation, look no farther than Canada.
There, a panel ruled that a man broke Alberta's human rights laws and committed a hate crime by doing nothing more than writing a letter to the editor.
The panel blamed the letter for a subsequent beating of a homosexual youth some two weeks after the letter was published. The penalty this man must suffer for exercising his freedom of speech, press and religion has yet to be determined.
(Note: shouldn't the paper be in the dock for publishing this letter in the first place?)
The solution? We must fight every attempt to grant special rights on the basis of sexual orientation, beginning with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act now in Congress.
(Pastor, Christian coalition violated human rights law, Alberta panel rules)
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IVA:
Gov. Huckabee was right not to back down from his statements in 1992 that AIDS was being wrongly handled as a civil rights issue rather than a health issue.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, homosexual behavior is a greater risk factor for contracting AIDS than even intravenous drug use.
What our culture does with homosexual behavior is not just a moral issue, it is a public health issue.
And Huckabee was right to call homosexual behavior "aberrant."
Even an honest evolutionist will have to tell you that evolution did not design the human body for homosexual behavior, for the simple reason that it cannot contribute to the propagation of the species. Yet this, in the grand scheme of all things, is what evolution is supposed to be all about.
Regarding the issue of quarantine. This is exactly what the NBA still does. If a player gets a cut on the floor and begins to bleed, he has to leave the floor until the bleeding is completely stopped and the wound bandaged. Why? Fear of AIDS.
So the NBA, even though it is certainly more enlightened about the transmission of AIDS than it was in 1992, still quarantines a player until he is no longer a health threat. In fact, all professional and college leagues do the same, if I am not mistaken.
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Reverse Religious Test (FRC)
Over the weekend I had flashbacks of the brutal judicial confirmation hearings that took place between 2003 and 2005 where certain nominees like William Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, Charles Pickering, and others were filibustered by the Democratic minority because of what Sen. Charles Schumer called their "deeply held personal beliefs."
Those "beliefs" were the religious convictions that led them in part to hold a position that abortion was wrong. There was a reverse religious litmus test applied. A subtle message was being sent that a person had to choose between an active, life-impacting faith and public service. It was wrong then and it is wrong now as it is being applied to Mike Huckabee. Let me preface what I am about to say by first recalling what I wrote last week (Dec. 3, 2007) explaining why I had not endorsed a presidential candidate and at present have no plans to do so. I remain undecided and what I say below does not imply a change in those plans; however, I feel compelled to rise to the defense of Mike Huckabee.
The media had been toying with and even promoting Mike Huckabee, thinking he would go nowhere; however, after FRC Action's Values Voter Summit he began a steady rise in the polls. In my opinion it was not because he finished a close second in the straw poll to Mitt Romney, but because he came out for the first time at our event, co-hosted by Focus on the Family Action and others and spoke unabashedly and unequivocally conservative on all the core social issues. He began to compete for territory that had been ceded to Gov. Romney. That message has resonated and he has not only climbed to first place in Iowa, but nationally he is second only to Rudy Giuliani in the most current polls. There is apparently fear now among the elites that his rise could be real and not a creation of the media.
Enter the reverse religious test that is being applied. In various settings over the last few days Huckabee has been confronted with articles from nearly a decade ago containing statements on the morality of issues like HIV-AIDS, homosexuality and even the need for spiritual awakening in America.
He was basically asked to recant. I am pleased to say that he did not recant.
This morning, for example, the lead story on Drudge was a 1998 article from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporting on a speech that Huckabee gave at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptists calling on the church to wake up following a rash of school shootings. The Drudge headline touted, "Take this nation back for Christ," a subtle but clear warning to secular elites. Columnist Richard Cohen wasn't as subtle last week when he said Huckabee is climbing in the polls because of "his obdurate and narrow-minded religious beliefs."
There is clearly a reverse religious standard being applied to Mike Huckabee, a standard that says there will be no defining religious beliefs. I would hope the other candidates, including the Democrats, would clearly and absolutely denounce this reverse religious test and keep the media from going further down this path. If not, I predict that bible-believing Christians will step over policy differences they have with Mike Huckabee to stand by and support a candidate who is being attacked because he believes, as they do, that their Christian faith should actually impact the way they live. If that happens, the recent meteoric rise of the Huckabee campaign in the polls could look minuscule compared to the tsunami of support that he will get from Christians who are tired of the elites who belittle their beliefs and attempt to rob them of every public reflection of their faith.
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Three of every Four NEW Aids cases are the Direct Result of transmission between the Coprophile Cult of Feces Focused Homo-Anal Perversions - but the 'anger' at these pathologically genocidal benaviors is considered Ungood - by those with a high 'tolerance' for their subsidy & spreed...
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Anger at new US restrictions on HIV+ visitors
By Tony Grew 16th November 2007
The DHS has finally issued proposed regulations which ImmigrationEquality claims will make it even harder to get a short-term waiver.
New regulations issued by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which claim to offer a "streamlined," "categorical" waiver for HIV-positive people visiting the country have been criticised by
American AIDS activists and immigration reform advocates.
Under current US immigration law, any foreign national who tests positive for HIV is "inadmissible," meaning he is barred from permanent residence and even short-term travel in the United States...
Nearly a year later, the DHS has finally issued proposed regulations... purport to speed up the waiver application
process because consular officers would be empowered to make
decisions on waiver applications without seeking DHS sign off.
However, by using this "streamlined" application process, waiver applicants would have to agree to give up the ability to apply for any change in status while in the U.S., including applying for legal permanent residence.
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All the lives that could have been saved - if only money spent on 'educating' Homo-Anal males not to choose to engage in buggery (and a futile effort it was), had instead been used to help with afflictions that were not a matter of perverted choice... Ohso
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The Aids epidemic that never was and why political correctness influences too much medical spending
By Karol Sikora Daily Mail (Britain) 21 November 2007
Billions of pounds were spent telling us we were ALL at risk from Aids. But as scientists now admit the threat was overblown, Britain's top cancer expert attacks the political correctness that influences too much medical spending...
But sadly, the vicissitudes of political correctness can dictate medical priorities. Certain diseases become fashionable in the public consciousness and so attract more political support and attention.
A classic example of this pattern is HIV/Aids. When this burst on the scene in Britain in the early Eighties, it became the biggest health issue facing the country, over-riding all other medical problems.
It monopolised ministerial attention and swallowed huge sums of public money in campaigns to raise public awareness.
The gay community, which was the most likely to be affected by Aids, was at the forefront of the pressure for vastly increased state funding.
A whiff of panic filled the air, with projections of a soaring rate of mortality from Aids before the end of the century....
Yet it has turned out that much of this panic, however
understandable, was misplaced.
In Britain, contrary to all the official propaganda of the Eighties that everyone was at risk, it turns out that the disease has largely been confined to certain specific groups: gay men, drug users and migrants.
All those with HIV and Aids, of course, deserve all the medical support that can be given, but the truth is that the overblown panic, based more on politics than science, led to a gross misallocation of resources...
At one stage in the early Nineties, we had the absurdity that the number of people in Aids counselling, helplines and other jobs exceeded the conceived number of sufferers. Moreover, for every three Aids victims there was one Aids organisation. A fortune was wasted on lecturing people who were never at risk.
Now it turns out that, to an extent, the same is true of the
developing world, where the UN has admitted that the scale of Aids has been exaggerated...
Again, just as in Britain, the idea that everyone is equally at risk has proved to be a fallacy. The UN report admits that, in most parts of the world, the disease is concentrated on gay men, drug users and prostitutes...
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By Any Other Name - Still Nothing to Clap About
Whether you call it 'MSM' - 'gay love' Or More Accurately - Feces Focused Homo-Anal Buggery - the chosen 'lifestyle' behavior of Coprophile Activists ranging from Barney Frank to the "Kiddie Porn King' of Sodom by the sea - Mark Leno, it is still a deeply Pathological Perversion... Ohso
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MSM "19 times more likely" to catch HIV
The study indicates that even in countries with low HIV prevalence in the general population, the epidemic among MSM is raging.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=6377 PinkNews.co.uk staff writer 12/19/07
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US have published the results of a new study.
It found that in 38 low- and middle-income countries, men who have sex with men have an average 19 times greater chance of being infected with HIV than the general population.
In some countries MSM are more than 100 times more likely to be infected, the study found...
The term 'MSM' includes those who identify as gay, but also
encompasses any men who have sexual encounters with other men, including groups whose gender and sexual identities defy Western categorisation...
The study indicates that even in countries with low HIV prevalence in the general population, the epidemic among MSM is raging.
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New Jersey Targets HIV Transmissions
By TOM HESTER Jr., Associated Press Writer 12/26/07
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - HIV testing may soon become part of routine prenatal care and be required for some newborns
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found medical intervention during pregnancy can cut mother-to-child HIV transmission from 25 percent to 2 percent.
New Jersey has about 17,600 AIDS cases, according to the Kaiser Foundation. Women represent 32.4 percent of the cases - the third highest rate in the nation. The national average is 23.4 percent.
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Syphilis is back, especially among gay men with HIV
By Maria Cheng AP Medical Writer 12/27/07 http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/printer_7621.php
European doctors, researchers say alarming resurgence of disease once thought eradicated could be tied to `safe sex fatigue'
LONDON — Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe...
Most cases of syphilis are in men, and experts point to more risky sex among gay men as the chief cause for the resurgence...
In the last decade, however, syphilis has unexpectedly returned, driven by risky sexual behavior and outbreaks... Among men in England, the syphilis rate jumped
from one per 100,000 in 1997 to nine per 100,000 last year...
Though these days it mainly affects urban gay men, experts worry that the disease could also rebound in the general population if stronger efforts to fight it are not taken soon...
Syphilis is a bacterial disease causing symptoms that include ulcers, sores and rashes. In extreme cases, it can result in dementia or can fatally damage the heart, respiratory and central nervous systems.
Syphilis is treatable with antibiotics if caught early. Once there are more than just a few isolated cases, containing the disease is difficult.
Advances made in treating AIDS may have inadvertently boosted syphilis' spread. "The evidence points to an increase in unsafe sexual behavior since anti-retrovirals for AIDS came along in 1996," said van de Laar...
"Networks of HIV-positive men to find other positive men have sprung up on the Internet," said Jonathan Elford, an AIDS epidemiologist at London's City University.
Some men who have the AIDS virus are seeking condom-free sex with other men who are also HIV-infected. However, they aren't protected against syphilis and other sexually spread diseases.
Among gay men who have syphilis in Britain, nearly half have HIV, Elford said.
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Health watchdog warns of UK sexual health crisis
By David Batty Guardian Unlimited 23 November 2007
The UK has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in Europe largely due to a growing epidemic of the disease in the black African community and among gay men...
The findings came as a separate report found that the UK had one of the highest rates of new HIV infections in Europe last year.
The report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found the UK HIV infection rate was more than double the European Union average... HIV/Aids cases in Europe have doubled in six years, bucking the trend elsewhere in the world where infection rates
have fallen.
The HPA, which monitors infectious diseases in the UK, also raised concern about the "disturbing" rise in HIV among gay men...
Rates of other STIs in gay men have also risen dramatically in recent years...
Between 2002 and 2006, rates of newly diagnosed gonorrhoea rose by 25% in gay men, syphilis by 117%, chlamydia by 97%, non-specific urethritis by 24% and genital warts by 21%.
Dr Valerie Delpech, the head of HIV surveillance at the HPA,
said: "In recent years we have seen steady increases in all sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, in gay men and since 2003, the number of HIV diagnoses reported annually has consistently increased and exceeded the annual number of diagnoses throughout the 1980s and 1990s."
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Washington DC is a disgrace for so many reasons - including its reputation as a Welfare Capitol for Radical Leftist / Gender Feminist / Homosex political activists. The question not asked or answered in this story is whether they (the Old Media Spinners) consider Dirty Needle Sharing Junkies to be part of what they call the 'heterosexual' link.
After all - In Weimar Kalifornia Three of Every four New Aids cases are the direct result of transmission between the coprophile cult of homo-anal buggery, with junkies and prostitutes making up the rest of the balance.
Sooooo... Either DC is an anamoly with its 'Heterosexual' spread outpacing Homo-Anal transmission, or most of the Junkies are listed as Heterosexual for reporting purposes - if only to make things seem more balanced...
Either way - best keep quiet, wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia", what with everything else going around and all.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Report Finds Washington Has Highest AIDS Infection Rate Among U.S.
Cities By IAN URBINA - November 27, 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 — The District of Columbia has the highest rate
of AIDS infection of any city in the country and the disease is being
transmitted to infants, older adults, women and heterosexual men at
an epidemic pace, according to a report released Monday by city
health officials.
The report said more than 12,400 people in the city — about 1 in 50 —
are living with AIDS or H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
"H.I.V./AIDS in the district has become a modern epidemic with
complexities and challenges that continue to threaten the lives and
well-being of far too many residents," said the report, which
includes the first-ever study of statistics on H.I.V. in the city,
along with updated data on AIDS cases. The H.I.V. data offers a vital
snapshot of the most recent infections so health officials can study
any changes in transmission patterns, the officials said...
Although black residents account for 57 percent of the city's
population of 500,000 or so, they account for 81 percent of new
reports of H.I.V. cases and about 86 percent of people with AIDS.
The report also found that the disease spread through heterosexual
contact in more than 37 percent of the cases detected from 2001 to
last year, in contrast with the 25 percent of cases attributable to
men having sex with men. Starting in 2004, the number of new H.I.V.
cases among men and women ages 40 to 49 outpaced every other age
group in the city.
While the report found 8,368 reported cases of people living with
AIDS in the district at the end of last year, a 43 percent increase
from 2001, it also found that the number of new H.I.V. cases began
declining in 2003. City health officials say the drop in H.I.V.
numbers was most likely a result of under-reporting or delayed
reporting...
City health officials said unprotected sex was the most common way
H.I.V. is spread, followed by intravenous drug use. Since 2000, about
13 percent of all new H.I.V. cases in the city involved intravenous
drug use, most likely the sharing of needles.
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IVA Roundup
Ø Another reason to firmly insist on abstinence education in our schools: syphilis is back with a vengeance. In Britain, syphilis cases have jumped tenfold in the past decade, while Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United States are all seeing similar trends. Pregnant women can transmit syphilis to their babies, nearly half of whom die shortly before or after birth. Syphilis rates have also dramatically spiked in the homosexual population. (Syphilis is back, especially among gay men with HIV; East Valley Tribune: Arizona declares syphilis crisis among gay men)
Ø Despite the homosexual community's insistence that HIV/AIDS is an equal opportunity disease, New York has seen a 34% increase since 2001 in the number of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men. Gay sex is also strongly associated with substance abuse, as homosexuals use drugs such as crystal meth and cocaine to reduce inhibitions and enable themselves to engage in extended periods of sexual activity with multiple partners. (New H.I.V. Cases Drop, but Rise in Young Gay Men - New York Times)
Ø In confirmation of the above paragraph, researchers at Johns Hopkins University - hardly a right-wing think tank - have discovered that men who have sex with men (MSM) have a 19 times greater chance of being infected with HIV than the general population. In some countries, MSM are at 100 times the risk. Simple compassion should compel us all to resist public endorsement of homosexual behavior. (MSM "19 times more likely" to catch HIV- from Pink News)
Ø Prisons in Oregon are now preparing to offer inmates in same-sex partnerships special privileges denied to married inmates, including the liberty for same-sex partners to "live in the same facility and unit." (WorldNetDaily: Prison benefits offered same-sex couples, not marrieds)Ø Another reason for us to firmly resist the homosexual agenda in America while we still can: a Spanish clergyman will be investigated by authorities for possible "homophobic attitudes" simply for teaching that homosexuals can be rehabilitated, and for teaching a seminar on "How to Raise Heterosexual Children." (Priest sued over seminar 'curing' homosexuality | The Guardian)
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Missing Old Media Exposure
Once again the Frisco Crock runs a Front Page Story about the new Staph Infection going around - and once again the Media News / Times is completely silent about this rapidly growing threat.
Perhaps they think that the burbs are immune from exposure to what the Crock says is a disease (mostly contracted so far by Homosex Behaviors) spreading from its Epicenter in the Castro District of Sodom by the Sea.
More likely our Old Media 'watchdogs' are trying to censor certain ungood facts about the source and transmission, which the 'Vanilla' (clueless voters / taxpayers) certainly don't need to be exposed to - just before an election...
Indeed - even the Crock seems to be responding to complaints from the Copropile Caucus that the discussion of Homo-Anal Behaviors as a prime source for the spread from ground zero in the Castro, no matter how factual, is simply too much Ungood News for the masses.
After all - We Wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia", what with everything else going around and all...
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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IVA
Normalizing homosexual behavior in any way is bad public policy, for health reasons alone. Word is now coming out of San Francisco that men who have sex with men are 13 times more likely to be infected with a potentially deadly strain of MRSA
than their heterosexual neighbors, and their sexual activity has moved the bacteria beyond the walls of U.S. hospitals, where it had been largely confined.
Such staph infections thus pose a genuine health threat to the general population since they are transmitted not only through sexual contact (the bacteria can live in and around the anus) but can also be transmitted simply by touching other people or by depositing the bacteria on surfaces or objects.
Said a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, "Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable."
The bacteria are also now spreading in the gay community in Boston, and outside hospitals in New York and Los Angeles as well. The superbug can cause life-threatening and disfiguring infections and often can only be treated with expensive, intravenous antibiotics.
(Newsmax.com - Resistant Staph Passed in Gay Sex; S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph)
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Times Staph Watchdogs
The over the top Bias of our Old Media on behalf of their agenda of pushing the Sick Hatreds and Vile Perversions of the Radical Gender Feminist / Homosex lobby takes many forms at the Times / MediaNews syndicate. From deliberate censorship of not just important facts about the annual Dyke March - Anti Male Hate Riot (even though they know about the Gridlock created each year by it) - but total censorship of any mention of its very existence, to spinning all other stories about the spread of ever newer and more virulent diseases out of the Homo-Anal population in Pathological Epicenters like the Bay Area / Castro District so as to avoid alarming the 'Vanilla' (clueless suburban voters), the myopic seeing eye watchdogs at MediaNews seek to cover all bases in a blanket of 'Weimar Journalism.'
Consider if you will, oh ever credulous Lurkers of the Net - the Complete Lack of Coverage by the Times of a story that has not only been reported worldwide, but was FRONT PAGE BANNER news in the 'rival' paper - the Frisco Crock-A-Bull... To wit, the announcement that the Homo-Anal population in the Castro District in Sodom by the Sea is the Epicenter of a New Strain of Highly Infections Drug Resistant Staph.
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S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer Monday, January 14, 2008
A new variety of staph bacteria, highly resistant to antibiotics and possibly transmitted by sexual contact, is spreading among gay men in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles, researchers reported Monday.
The study released online by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found the highest concentrations of infection by the drug-resistant bug in and around San Francisco's Castro district and among patients who visit health clinics that treat HIV infections in gay men in San Francisco and Boston. "We probably had it here first, and now it is spreading elsewhere," said Binh An Diep, a researcher at San Francisco General Hospital and lead author of the report. "This is a national problem, and San Francisco is at the epicenter."
What is unusual in this case is the high percentage of infections - up to 40 percent - occurring in the buttocks and genitalia... The study estimated that 200 cases of this highly drug-resistant variant are turning up in San Francisco each year, mostly among gay men. "We are nowhere near the peak," Diep said. "The peak will occur when it spreads into the general population."
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The Times has had two days to run a story, and none have appeared so far - which begs a number of questions, the most prominent perhaps being just how many media identified 'heterosexuals' (such as Junkies & Prostitutes) will have to be diagnosed before the Times Syndicate feels it 'safe' to announce the fact, and of course whether they will mention the Homo-Anal angle at all.
Perhaps it is best not to know, as the Thought Crime of "Ism-Obia" is no doubt considered by said 'watchdogs' as much worse than any flesh eating disease spread out of the Coprophile Cult in Frisco, as such Ungood information might lead the 'Vanilla' to Vote differently than they are told by said 'watchdogs'...
Cant have than now can we... Wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia, what with everything else going around and all.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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America's Immune Deficiency Syndrome
WorldNetDaily.com 18 January 2008
The headlines are kind of alarming these days. Old forgotten diseases are suddenly making a comeback. And new strains of old plagues are deadlier than anything previously seen. You've heard of AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Is America's immune system under attack?
The latest news out of San Francisco is not good.
A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved
beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among
homosexual men during sex. Does this sound familiar? Shades of the 1980s?
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear
outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles. According to a study done at the University of California, San
Francisco, homosexual men are 13 times more likely to contract the
disease, which is documented to spread in skin-to-skin contact.
That means it could easily spread to the general population. When it
does, the results could be cataclysmic. "Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable," explains Binh Diep, the researcher who led the study.
While AIDS disproportionately affected intravenous drug users,
hemophiliacs and, of course, homosexual men practicing their own
special brand of risky and unnatural acts, it never did break into
the general population in a big way. AIDS was actually hard to get. This new bug is not.
But the very same people are spreading it – a special-interest group
defined proudly by their sexual deviance, a special-interest group
actually empowered politically by the very AIDS crisis that once
threatened to wipe it out.
It's just another alternative lifestyle, we're told. Yet it is a lifestyle that is deadly – one that serves as a breeding ground for AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea, dozens of other sexually transmitted diseases and now MRSA.
I have a profound question to ask: Isn't it time to make [bleep] sex taboo, again?
I mean, look what we have learned over the last 20 years! What do you suppose is riskier – smoking or [bleep] sex? That's right. [bleep] sex is far more dangerous. Those practicing it live far shorter lives and frequently die more painful deaths. Yet, it's increasingly more difficult to find a place to have a smoke than it is to have homosexual sex.
Let's face it. It's cool to be "gay" on television, in the movies, in
public schools and in America's newsrooms. It is not nearly as cool
to smoke. Why? Because people recognize smoking is a health threat.
But they don't recognize that sodomy is a much more serious health
threat.
Simply for writing this column, I will be subjected to the most
vicious hate speech imaginable. I will be called a bigot, a Nazi, a
homophobe and worse. Not once have I ever heard anti-smoking crusaders referred to as bigots, Nazis or tobacco-phobes.
Please explain the difference. I'll tell you the difference. Give me a choice between smoking and [bleep] sex and I'll choose smoking every time. Not just because [bleep] sex has no appeal to me whatsoever, but because [bleep] sex is far more dangerous. Isn't it time we stopped promoting it on TV, the movies, in public schools and in America's establishment press?
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The Old Media Coverup Continues - After All, there is an election to influence and schoolkids to pimp, and the 'Vanilla' (clueless voters / taxpayers)don't need to be distracted by 'Ungood' information... Ohso
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Homosexuals Squelch Facts About MRSA Outbreak, Conservatives Say
By Pete Winn
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11566130/
(CNSNews.com) - Conservative groups say the truth about a new "multi-
drug resistant microbe" prevalent among homosexual men is not being
presented to the public because of political correctness.
Almost two weeks ago, researchers announced they have isolated a new
form of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an
infection that is spreading through San Francisco's homosexual community and could spread to the general community."These multi-drug resistant infections often affect gay men at body sites in which skin-to-skin contact occurs during sexual activities," said Binh Diep, the University of California-San Francisco scientist
who led the team that made the finding.
In fact, the researchers determined that this variant of MRSA
infection is 13 to 14 times more prevalent in homosexual men than for
the general population.But the media are now obscuring that fact, according to Matt Barber,
director of cultural policy for Concerned Women for America (CWA).
"The real story here is the way that the media have whitewashed this
outbreak," Barber told Cybercast News Service. "It is amazing to see
what they've done with this." Barber said the initial reporting of the outbreak was "pretty solid"
and news accounts related the facts "as is," but the coverage began
to change after conservative groups like CWA noted that this variant
is primarily spread by men having [bleep] sex.
"The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and other organizations began to
jump up and down a bit and scream, and The New York Times and other
organizations started to backpedal," Barber said. "The story was no longer the dangers associated with the outbreak -
and the behaviors associated with it," said Barber. "The story now
became about how groups like mine were supposedly misrepresenting the
outbreak as some sort of 'new gay plague' or 'the new AIDS' - things
we never said."
Indeed, HRC accused CWA and others of being "anti-gay bigots" for
recommending that one way to stop this outbreak of the infection is
for homosexual men to curtail having [bleep] sex - at least for a while.
"Serious medical issues deserve serious consideration, not wildly off-
the-mark press releases from anti-gay groups trying to capture media
attention," HRC President Joe Solmonese said in a news release. "We saw this kind of hysteria in the early 1980s around HIV/AIDS, and
I'll be damned if we will sit idly by in 2008 and let them perpetrate
that type of anti-gay hysteria without calling them out on it," he
said.
Since the homosexual backlash, the University of California-San
Francisco has apologized for the fact that the study mentions
homosexual men. "We regret that our recent news report (1-14-08) about an important
population-based study on MRSA USA300 with public health implications
contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading,"
the university's Web site said.
"We deplore negative targeting of specific populations in association
with MRSA infections or other public health concerns, and we will be
working to ensure that accurate information about the research is
disseminated to the health community and the general public," it
added. Even the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has
taken a somewhat politically correct line. In a statement issued
recently on the new outbreak, the government agency said it is "not a
sexually transmitted disease in the classic sense" - and that spread
of the bacteria could be stopped by washing hands and covering open
wounds.
"We never suggested that it was a sexu