Staph fatalities may exceed AIDS deaths »
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More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
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STONERS9 months, 3 weeks ago
"The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That's an "astounding" figure."
"Most drug-resistant staph cases are mild skin infections. But this study focused on invasive infections â;; those that enter the bloodstream or destroy flesh and can turn deadly."
"Researchers found that only about one-quarter involved hospitalized patients. However, more than half were in the health care system â;; people who had recently had surgery or were on kidney dialysis, for example. Open wounds and exposure to medical equipment are major ways the bug spreads."
"In recent years, the resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and it has been spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and in poor urban neighborhoods."
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BronxBomber9 months, 3 weeks ago
I'm not surprised, if you check around seem like when there's a new century millennium, there seems to be a new pandemic running breaking out, & leaving behind scores of victims in it's deadly wake. Seems like it's coming around again unfortunately.
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lvrofwolves9 months, 3 weeks ago
ekklesiawarrior- isn't there plenty of studies now about people who for example grew up on farms and people who grew up in a basically sterilized environment, the people on the farm had much more resistance to 'bugs' then the people who grew up with clean freaks.
True I wouldn't want to be in a filthy hospital, that should be kept sterile, there are alot of things hospitals, and other medical facilities could do to take extra precautionary measures that they don't do. Like why not make every visitor that walks through the doors wear those diposable masks???
super bugs...scary as hell!
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puffin9 months, 3 weeks ago
My brother-in-law was infected with a staph superbug, twice, after shooting himself in the head.
The first time was quite soon after the initial shooting but his skull cap never healed properly when it was first attached back on, and he got another superbug infection when he went in to have it repaired ... about a year later! He was in rough shape recently, though I don't think he really understands how serious it is/was. He basically lobotomized himself.
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puffin9 months, 3 weeks ago
'Cause he's a stupid ass!
About a week before, his wife moved out & asked him for a divorce. They hadn't been married very long, a couple years ... he wasn't happy and she wasn't happy but he didn't want or seem to want to work on the marriage. I know she tried to get him to go to counseling with her. But she had enough.
So anyways ... he had been hanging out that evening, with his neighbour & they had a couple drinks. His neighbour said Kurt was fine, in a good mood, when he left at 11pm. Well, sometime between 11pm and 3am Kurt drank two twixers (50 oz) of Vodka. He then carried one of his two cats over to his neighbours' house telling them they have to take care of his cats now, crying and totally blasted. He was going back for the other cat when they called 911. He locked himself inside and shot the house up for two hours before he shot himself.
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natashas9 months, 3 weeks ago
I know this has always been a problem, but I am surprised about the number of people that this has effected.
Sorry about your brother puffin.
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dwemm9 months, 3 weeks ago
Similarly, my mother-in-law had a hip replacement surgery that got infected with superstaph, had it taken out and put back in five times. She still can't walk and is living on pain meds. She needs constant care now.
Sometimes we have to realize what real evil is, and for the most part it's not in people, it's in nature.
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Eagle_Eye9 months, 3 weeks ago
I contracted the MRSA when I visited a girl friend who was dying of breast cancer in the hospital 2 years ago. It kept being misdiagnosed for those 2 years as just a staph abcess infection and I would be put on antibiotics for 7-10 days.
This summer my husband had his kidney removed and contracted it from the hospital. This time the Doctors took me serious as we both had cultures done and it came back MRSA. Our Managing Physician was horrified to realize that he had not taken me serious in the past and put us both on high dose of antibiotics for 20 days. It is gone now but I am still dealing with the effects the high dose of antibiotics had on my body.
This bacterial infection is HELL!!! Any one who gets this is dealing with a serious life threatening bacteria that can not be killed with the standard 7-10 day antibiotics. You have to have 20 days of one type and then another 5 days of another antibiotic. This is where the biggest mistake is made by just giving standard doses.
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Eagle_Eye9 months, 3 weeks ago
It is a far worse problem in the United Kingdom, they are at an epidemic status of these "Super Bugs" for several years. The US is just now recognizing the problem.
"What's up?"....typical corporate crapola, there are big bucks to be made in medicine and they don't want the average person to lose faith in the medical community.
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ACTeeple9 months, 3 weeks ago
A few months back, Reader's Digest did a story of MRSA "super bug" infections outside of the hospital. It focused on the minority of cases that are not contracted in the hospital, so it did not mention how rampant this was IN the hospital. This just gives me another reason to add to my growing hospital phobia.
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Mutainia9 months, 3 weeks ago
There was a big, strong, young, healthy pastor of a church I use to attend about seven years ago. He got an infected with this, and, within a couple of days, he had litterally dissolved into a sort of black, bloody mush. I never met him, just heard of his passing. Sounded incredibly gruesome. It seems to be a reverse of AIDS, where, if you HAVE a great immune-system, the faster you go with it.
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ebud9 months, 3 weeks ago
the reason we have these "super bugs" is because of the public demanding their doctors give them antibiotics for every little cough and sneeze. Antibiotics are not effective for viral diseases such as colds and flu. They think they get better with the drugs because viral conditions start to improve and go away in 3 to 7 days on their own if there is no bacterial secondary infection. If you start to feel worse after 3 to 7 days, go see your doctor for the appropriate lab work. I am not a lay person with this info...I'm a nurse with 30 years of experience.
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joeblowe9 months, 3 weeks ago
And the funny thing is, practically every lay person KNOWS this by now, and doctors CERTAINLY do, and yet -- my sons tells me that his doctor gave him antibiotics for his baby because she had some sort of virus. Possibly flu. In which case an anti-viral med should have been thought about. And my son is smart enough to KNOW you can't kill a virus with antibiotics. It's just S.O.P. as a "just in case" since a person is weakened by the virus. The problem is, NOT ENOUGH antibiotic is given to completely eradicate whatever opportunistic germ might happen to be hanging around, so it kills the weak ones and the resistant ones breed.
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Eagle_Eye9 months, 3 weeks ago
"The problem is, NOT ENOUGH antibiotic " EXACTLY what I was saying, noting happen with 7-10 day doses, "spider bites" kept coming back.
It wasn't until I was on one for 15 days and then switch to another for 5 more. That way you get what mutates. but that amount of antibiotics is hard on the body, I'm still recovering.
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doppich9 months, 3 weeks ago
I'm sure that's part of it, but let's not leave agribusiness off the hook. We eat their cattle, swine, lamb and farm-raised fish which have been pumped full of antibiotics. Their waste products are dumped into the environment. But reducing that use would reduce profits, so it's preferable to blame the whole problem on the person with a sinus infection.
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slyboy29 months, 3 weeks ago
Maybe I'm lucky and go to great hospitals or am blind and don't see what is going on. All I ever see in a hospitals is doctors and nurses cleaning their hands, putting on gloves and throwing away everything into the biohazord waste trash can when they are done. And yet to hear of all of these infections getting passed around in these health facilities just boggles my mind.
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ciera-marie9 months, 3 weeks ago
Good find STONERS.
Some of the advice that I've been reading regarding talking to doctors, tests you should have, etc includes this, if they don't wash their hands before they enter the room, watch to see if they it in the examining room before they touch you. If they don't ask them to wash their hands. I'd include nurse practitioners and nurses in this.
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joeblowe9 months, 3 weeks ago
Couple of things: They didn't seem to mention NURSING HOMES too prominently. My mother had a skin infection like this. When she was hauled to the hospital for treatment, the nursing home told her should COULD NOT come back until the MRSA had been cured. Totally overlooking that she had probably gotten it there in the first place. Older folk have weaker immune systems. And, she was diabetic to boot. Finally cost her a leg.
The deal about not overusing antibiotics is pure B.S. As one comment here notes, doctors don't tend to take SEEMINGLY ordinary infections too seriously. I expect you'd have to already be green or purple for a G.P. to start thinking you had something SERIOUS. The problem isn't overprescribing, it's UNDERPRESCRIBING. If every early infection had been aggressively treated with LARGER doses of antibiotic, the germ would never have had a chance to mutant to a resistant strain and the original dosage would have killed them ALL, instead of just the weaker ones.
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joeblowe9 months, 3 weeks ago
Further, going in with what -appears- to be a regular old, non life threatening illness will get you treated with run of the mill antibiotics. Usually. It isn't until a culture is done (or you deteriorate seriously) that someone will up the ante and start pumping in the newer, more potent antibiotics. This procedure, of course, HELPS the damned germ to grow even stronger.
Oh - any of you knuckleheads out there that don't quite seem to believe in evolution: please take note, right here is an example.
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Eagle_Eye9 months, 3 weeks ago
That is true, it lived in body for 2 years coming like spider or fire ant bites. It made me feel flu like sick though so I knew some thing was wrong and researched it myself so I got informed enough to catch the culture.
It is very important for individuals to get knowledgable about their health and stop thinking that the Doctors are know it alls.
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coreyspring9 months, 3 weeks ago
I've heard the same thing and don't doubt it at all after having seen people that have it get it over and over
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antitrust9 months, 3 weeks ago
Here at our office we had an employee who seemed healthy as a horse but unknowingly had MRSA. On a Monday he called in sick and by Wednesday he was in the hospital. That Friday he had died. In less then a week a man went from seemingly healthy to passing. The hospital sent our office a letter recommending anyone who had any physical contact or fluid exchange get checked out. As far as we know, he did not pass it to anyone.
R.I.P - David
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jaern9 months, 3 weeks ago
I think that antibacterial products have helped contribute to the growing problems in our health. Bacteria is a good thing. A little can go along way in building a natural resistance. Mind you, I'm not saying go out and eat some dirt, but relax a bit. Washing your hands before food prep, after using the restroom are good things. and as my mother always use to say, "Keep your damn hands away from your mouth!" :o)
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coreyspring9 months, 3 weeks ago
Couldn't agree more jaern - the bugs are only going to get more resistant when we keep loading ourselves up with antibiotics at times when we don't particularly need them.
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coreyspring9 months, 3 weeks ago
Scary stuff - my roommate had staph earlier this year and it put him out of commission for 6 weeks. After he finally got over it and the doctors said hewould be good to go back to work it came back... not once, but two more times.
It's really scary how resistant to drugs some infections are becoming.
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puffin9 months, 3 weeks ago
Do any of you remember a particular BSE incident, where a lady had eaten some Mad Cow tainted meat 15 yrs prior to her child being born and when he was about 8 yrs old he got sick from the recessive bacteria? (I don't know if recessive is the right word) Scary that we can harbor such diseases until the time is exactly right for infection or transmission.
I'll have to see if I can find anything on that.
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