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Staph Superbug Hits N.Y.U. Dorms

NotAndersonCooper — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:41:42 EST

@Gayatrispivak:
Personal Hygiene could lead to sex. God wouldn't like that.

NotAndersonCooper

Staph Superbug Hits N.Y.U. Dorms

GayatriSpivak — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:35:14 EST

Maybe these kids should take Personal Hygiene 101

GayatriSpivak

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Michael Jahn — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:49:57 EST

@michaeljahn: It's the 12-year-old Brooklyn boy who died, sez WNBC, which also discovered the NYU MRSA story 24 hours after Gawker did.

Michael Jahn

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Michael Jahn — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:17:39 EST

@MadameEducatrix: The NYU memo says he's "doing well."

Michael Jahn

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MadameEducatrix — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:13:08 EST

@michaeljahn: Oooo, no, quick subject change.

MadameEducatrix

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fileunder — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:54:22 EST

um, he died 'late last month.'

fileunder

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Michael Jahn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:20:45 EDT

@NotAndersonCooper:

Love cruise ships. They're bulemia heaven. A six-day cruise is two days of eating, two days of dual-orifice elimination, and two days of reloading the calories.

Michael Jahn

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Michael Jahn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:16:01 EDT

@NotAndersonCooper: Where's Willie Nelson these days? what about Heather Mills McCartney! She's rich, pissed off, fond of publicity, and acqainted with medical issues.

Michael Jahn

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brokenface — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:02:28 EDT

"No, it's not MRSA, I'm Pregnant!" Sighs of relief ensue...

brokenface

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NotAndersonCooper — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:35:56 EDT

Send the kid on a cruise ship. I love it when this shit happens to a boatload of angry vacationers.
@michaeljahn:
Bono can't make it -not third world enough. I'm hoping Moby becomes the face of staph.

NotAndersonCooper

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Michael Jahn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:05:21 EDT

@MadameEducatrix: A compromised immune system will also do it, but we needn't go there, need we.

Michael Jahn

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MadameEducatrix — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:58:45 EDT

@MyrtleWilloughby: @michaeljahn: Down here (the erstwhile "6th Borough" area), MRSA's popping up at a bunch of high schools, among athletes. Maybe this guy's a, um...a wrestler. Greco-Roman. You know.

MadameEducatrix

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Michael Jahn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:48:43 EDT

@NotAndersonCooper: A celebrity golf tournament always works (also, safer [no crowded and unsanitary locker rooms, I presume])
Someone cal Bono.

Michael Jahn

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NotAndersonCooper — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:39:46 EDT

Is there a free concert? If this were serious, we'd get a free concert and a celebrity spokesperson.

NotAndersonCooper

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Michael Jahn — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:17:52 EDT

Yeah, well if this kid didn't get it in a hospital or something like that, but just from walking around the campus, NYU has a bigger problem than it's letting on. You don't get community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) from the lousy music on Bleecker Street and it ain't to be taken lightly.

Michael Jahn

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PomPom — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:04:38 EDT

So is Saturday the day that Gawker sheds its snarky skin and reports regular news all cnn-like?

PomPom

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MyrtleWilloughby — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:56:06 EDT

Poor hospitals!I heap the blame on them when the kid could have picked up the infection in a much happier place.

Like a locker room full of jocks!

As they say in the radio ads, "the proof is in the people at Iona.

Former Player Sues NY College Over Staph
[ap.google.com]

MyrtleWilloughby

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MyrtleWilloughby — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:46:20 EDT

But where did he catch it? From an errant falaffel?From leaning against the Washington Square arch? Did Max Brenner include a special somthin-somethin' in the chocolate pizza?

My guess is that this was some pre-med go-getter who picked it up at Bellevue (NYU affiliated) or St. Vincents (so close!) hospital where all the hottest new anti-biotic resistant strains go mainstream. I tells ya, infectious diseases haven't been the same since bottle service.

MyrtleWilloughby

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ElijahPollack — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:13:55 EDT

@arirang: Everybody wang chung tonight!

ElijahPollack

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arirang — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:02:17 EDT

Chungs RULE!

-A Chung and proud of it

arirang

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Gravy Train — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:47:13 EDT

which dorm? inquiring minds want to know!!!

Gravy Train

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ElijahPollack — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:44:49 EDT

Looks like we have no choice but to bomb it. So sad.

ElijahPollack

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NattyLite — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:09:22 EDT

@ THESIXTY I guess the staph infections work faster than waiting for them all to jump off buildings...

NattyLite

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GothamTomato — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:05:55 EDT

On the plus side, the super bug couldn't possibly be as insideous as the NYU real estate development machine.

GothamTomato

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JDel — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:48:12 EDT

Gee, and I thought the super bug was simply a way for Bush to kill poor people. Apparently it's being used to kill poor people, and rich liberals. Genius.

JDel