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Sex spreads MRSA infection
1/10/2007 7:18 PM ET / USA TODAY
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,"
....in the Annals of Emergency Medicine in January 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.
Researcher Frank Lowy, lead author of the Columbia report, says the study indicates that people should refrain from sex if they have open lesions. "They have to be alert to the fact there's a new bug in town," he says, "and one potential means of transmission is sexual activity." ...more...
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