RADIO TIDBITS

I listened to some of the Tammy Bruce Show on Friday and she was complaining that the gays are responsible for a new killer bacteria because, um, well, they get AIDS and somehow this led to a new strain of bacteria.

The problem, as usual, is that this is false. The bacteria had been around for decades, long before AIDS arose:

Known as MRSA — methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus or "mersa" — it is in fact a highly contagious bacteria that has developed strong resistance to most antibiotics, making it hard to treat and setting the stage for dangerous invasive disease.
Mersa itself is actually nothing new. This resistant form of staph bacteria has been around for decades, but was limited mostly to outbreaks in hospital and nursing-home patients. LINK