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This 8 page paper critiques an article on MRSA, points out its biases and explains why it is important that the news media report things accurately. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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dont have all the facts, or for some other reason. This paper critiques one recent news article by summarizing it, giving an overview of the opinions presented in the piece,
examining the claims made in the article, and discussing the impact on the public of such claims. The article is entitled "MRSA threatens Britain," and begins with the alarming statement,
"A potentially deadly and highly drug resistant strain of MRSA has developed which can lead to a flesh-eating form of pneumonia, researchers have warned" (Gammell and Elsworth, 2008). The article
claims that the disease, which is resistant to a number of drugs, is spreading quickly throughout the gay male population segment in "several major US cities," and that it can
cause blood poisoning, boils, or a "necrotizing condition which eats away at a persons lungs" (Gammell and Elsworth, 2008). The article claims that the bacteria has been found in gay
men in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, that it is resistant to "most front-line antibiotic drugs," and that it is much more vicious than other forms of
MRSA, which are often found in hospitals (Gammell and Elsworth, 2008). The strain is believed to be spread by sexual contact, and researchers fear that gay or bisexual men
will spread it outside the gay community to society at large, leading to a crisis of epidemic proportions (Gammell and Elsworth, 2008). One of the researchers, Dr. Binh Diep, said
that because there is no antibiotic effective against this strain, they were "trying to spread the message of prevention" (Gammell and Elsworth, 2008). He stated that in the heavily gay
Castro district of San Francisco, one in 588 people was believed to be infected (Gammell and Elsworth, 2008). This particular strain was first discovered in 2003, and is a
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