‘Superbug’ bacteria deaths exceed those from AIDS
October 16th, 2007 . by TexasFredMore than 94,000 Americans get life-threatening MRSA infections annually, most of which appear to be traceable back to hospitals, nursing homes or medical clinics, the new CDC report found.
Nearly 19,000 Americans die each year of invasive infections caused by drug-resistant staphylococcus bacteria—a larger number than deaths caused by AIDS, according to a major new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The report, written by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest piece of research to note the alarming spread of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in communities across the U.S. and to document the bacteria’s deadly impact.
MRSA is a superbug that does not respond to treatment by common antibiotics such as penicillin. The bacteria can live on common surfaces such as tables or doorknobs for days or weeks and can be transmitted when someone touches an infected surface.
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One of our neighborhood kids came home from school last week with a staph infection in his upper ankle area, no idea where it came from, no indicators, the doctors treated it very aggressively and thank God he’s OK now but this super bacteria thing is almost beyond belief…
We’re going to have a strain hit that is so powerful and so resistant that mankind could well place himself in serious danger of extinction…
And for older folks and folks with chronic illnesses it’s an even more frightening possibility, we’re the most susceptible and could very easily pass it along to others in the process…
I might be older and ill but ya know, I’m just not ready to go yet, and the idea of being remembered in the same tone as Typhoid Mary is NOT the legacy I want to leave behind…
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Hospitals are simply repositories of rampant infection; it’s bacteria’s job to congregate there.
BZ
Two points:
1. Our hospital finds a significant percentage of MRSA cases have the infection when they enter the hospital.
2. Foolish over-prescription of antibiotics has aided this crisis.
I guess it’s time to…………………….
Smoke em, if you got em.
Bush is responsible for this new bacteria, his evil lab in the Ozarks is being run by Carl Rove, Rove was tasked to come up with a bio-chemical that would penetrate the liberal mind and break through the first layer of bullshit, unfortunately the development plans were leaked by the NYT and a subsequent destruction plan was foiled by Ann Coulter when she stumbled into the lab and thought it was a cheeseburger, she added what appeared to ketchup and this new deadly bacteria was born……. It is all Bush’s fault!
In all seriousness I agree with JS, on #2, anti biotics were given for everything and now were are paying the price….
I wonder how much the National Institutes of Health is spending on this disease? In 2003 the NIH spent the lion’s share of its money on AIDS and West Nile Virus even though they’ve caused the fewest number of deaths in the US compared to others.
http://www.fairfoundation.org/nih_statistics.htm
Fred, I feel the same way. All the things I’ve survived so far….to be get got by MRSA would really piss me off !
The fault can be spread in two directions. Mis-use of antibiotics and illegal immigration. The excessive use of anti-biotics caused various strains of bacteria to become resistant. This generally happened because people started feeling better after taking it for a couple of days and didn’t finish the full regiment of the drug. The weakened germ was able to mutate and move on.
Illegals brought us deceases and bacteria that had been removed from our society for decades. Doctors unfamiliar with so called extinct diseases chose the miracle pill of the day the anti-biotic. These new/old deceases continue to sweep over America.
It all goes back to illegal immigration.
We cant blame everything on Bush. After all there are illegal immigrants that come into our country without having been screened for diseases. Also we all think we are immune to bacteria just because we live in America and this is a false sense of security. Just like the government thinks open borders don’t affect us. We are wide open for bio-chemical attacks from every direction. We have to be more particular about our own hygiene than we were before and more alert to scrapes and scratches.