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Skybird
01-17-11, 08:16 AM
http://www.disabled-world.com/health/mrsa/vaccine-mrsa.php

Getting a workable vaccine against MRSA would be solving to a very huge, and widening, medical problem.

There are no robust data on death numbers from MRSA in German hospitals, the researches and estimations range from 20,000 to 80,000 per year. Regarding hygiene, German hospitals for the most represent almost standards of third world countries, 90% of the houses do not even have experts on the matter of hygiene. Hospital-bred MRSA infections happen 20 times as often in German hospitals, than in Durch hospitals were strict hygiene rules are the rule in every hospital. The low hygiene standards of German hospitals even have alarmed the EU. Crticis say that the dramatic finacial status of hospitals forces them to save their patients to death. If you ever need to go to hospital in Germany, you are well-advised to choose the house wisely and by help of search services via intern et that list hospitals with dedicated hygiene experts. In almost no other European country your risk to catch a secondary infenction from your stay is so dramatically high as in Germany. Again, no solid data available it seems, the data usually quoted range from 10% to 25% of patients in hospital catching up infections there.

No compliment for a nation like Germany. In this regard, and some others (railway on my mind), it is a banana republic.

ReFaN
01-17-11, 09:11 AM
we had class today about MRSA, and this is very promising news, if it turns out it will work ;)

Growler
01-17-11, 12:53 PM
MRSA is bad.

What's not being discussed is something just as bad, perhaps worse:

Clostridium difficile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_difficile).

Anyone in hospital for chemotherapy or any other form of immunosuppressive and antibiotic therapy needs to be aware of this.

One of the attending nurses when mom died mentioned that, as far as she'd seen, C.diff was fast approaching MRSA as far as hospital-based illnesses went.

tater
01-17-11, 03:41 PM
C-diff is nasty, I agree.

Ducimus
01-17-11, 04:37 PM
I had MRSA. I picked it up in Central America. At least I think it picked it up there. Cause I came back with a bad case of immersion foot (skin was peeling off the balls of my feet in sheets), with a secondary deep space infection in my right foot. Was sitting right next to a nerve. Doctor told me that if it had hit my nerve, id have lost my leg.

Ending up in isolation for two weeks at an Air force hospital, with Vancomycin being pumped into me by IV. They had to move the IV every day cause it would burn the vein out. It wasn't fun, but it kicked the MRSA's ass.

Growler
01-17-11, 04:39 PM
Yikes... glad it worked out if your favor, man - but I don't envy you the troubles, that's for damned sure.