UPDATE: New Drug-Resistant Superbugs Found in 3 States

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by tater

What is the BS. All the cases came from India, and it's a different strain. Not surprising. There are MRSA cases here in the states all the time, and it's a serious issue. The story is reported in the press, so what do you expect. I'm sure any real papers on the subject are not breathlessly talking about superbugs, just stating a medical reality.

Always interesting to see some moronic convergences of left and right in here.

some are not in present time..

http://healthfreedoms.org/2010/07/13...ect-s-f-sites/

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735

http://healthfreedoms.org/2009/12/17...ara-starfield/

http://chrisabraham.com/2010/05/03/s...n-in-hospital/

http://healthfreedoms.org/2009/12/17...ara-starfield/

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by Zachstar

The phamas are late for the next scare. Obviously for the good of investors they need to keep manufacturing pandemic scares with BS info in order to scare people into the hospitals.

Sorry but I call BS.

Flesh eating bacteria? chance of zombie outbreak? When has the media not been all over stories like that?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

Flesh eating bacteria? chance of zombie outbreak? When has the media not been all over stories like that?

time for reload

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by tater

There are MRSA cases here in the states all the time, and it's a serious issue.

I'm told the best places to pick up MRSA are hospitals, and all those 24 hour fitness centers.

Personally, news about superbugs scares me.. but only a little bit. I picked up MRSA somewhere in belize, guatamala, or honduras back in 93. Had a deep space infection in my right foot, and it was sitting right next to a nerve. Had it hit my nerve, it would have gone up my leg and they would have had to take it off. Took me two weeks in the hospital on a Vancomycin IV to kick it. That stuff burned. They had to move the IV every day because it burned the veins after so long.

Take care of your feet, and don't expose any open cuts,scrapes, or sores to dirty surfaces or objects that people handle reguarly, and always wash your hands before you eat.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I'm told the best places to pick up MRSA are hospitals, and all those 24 hour fitness centers.

Personally, news about superbugs scares me.. but only a little bit. I picked up MRSA somewhere in belize, guatamala, or honduras back in 93. Had a deep space infection in my right foot, and it was sitting right next to a nerve. Had it hit my nerve, it would have gone up my leg and they would have had to take it off. Took me two weeks in the hospital on a Vancomycin IV to kick it. That stuff burned. They had to move the IV every day because it burned the veins after so long.

Take care of your feet, and don't expose any open cuts,scrapes, or sores to dirty surfaces or objects that people handle reguarly, and always wash your hands before you eat.

[Gerald]

Researchers hope a new class of antibiotics will fend off an infectious-disease nightmare: bacteria that have grown resistant to nearly all current drugs.

Cases of drug-resistant super bugs are becoming more prevalent, with health officials reporting Monday of an alarming new gene spreading around the world. The problem stems from abuse of antibiotics, which has accelerated the rise of bacteria strains that are completely resistant to current treatments.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...th-superdrugs/




Note:Update version,published September 15, 2010

[Ducimus]

Well, it may feel like someones pumping battery acid into your veins, but as long as it kills it i guess.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Well, it may feel like someones pumping battery acid into your veins, but as long as it kills it i guess.

[tater]

I agree, stay out of hospitals—they are full of sick people.

(that wasn't a joke, lol. Can't believe my wife likes it in there, I hate that place)

[Skybird]

The official number for German poatients fetching up MRSA, says 500,000 per year. the black number, the unknown number is estimated to be much higher, since hospitals have an economic interest to not report every case. Many German hospitals are on the level of third world countries concerning internal hygienics, the conditions are partially unbelievable. Official numbers say 20,000 people die due to MRSA every year, again, insiders estimate the number to be much higher. In other countries it is standard that patients being brought to hospital, get a check by an hygienics expert just to see if they carry any additional germs not related to their official symptoms. In Germany, this is rare. That leads to the situation that in Holland the situation is much, much better because hospitals handle the problem much more competently than German hospitals do: and when a German enters a Dutch hospital, for example a tourist, he is given especially careful scanning, because he is German and the Germans are known to be careless about hospital hygienics. So german patients are treated as high risks to internal hospital hygienics. The criticsm of a german commission that checked for hospital hygienics, filed a devastating report some time ago. Even washing their hands after having been on the toilet, was a rare oddity not only amongst wards, but even doctors who really should know it better. Bathrooms usually do not get cleaned for weeks. Conditions in some hospitals were described as ideal breeding grounds for infectous germs.

Regarding MRSA and hygienics in hospitals, German really is amongst the worst in middle europe, comparing to a developement country. I would say that is a national shame. Some hospitals have started to adress the problems, though. But that you can read about them in the newspapers, only illustrates that they still are the exception from the rule.