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A Not-So-Gay Disease

By The Daily Dish
Jan 19 2008, 4:39 AM ET

Newsweek rightly questions the media's hysterical story line on drug-resistant staph infections as a new "gay disease" caused by "gay sex". It isn't and it isn't. Chris Crain and Mike Petrelis comment. Some key data points here. Why weren't the press full of stories of MRSA being the new military plague - in danger of breaking out into the "general population"? It makes as much as sense as the "new HIV" line.



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