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sirene99 says:
I have personally talked with two people who contracted MRSA in the past month. One of them said the doctors suspected a spider bite, but basically didn''t know the cause. He had surgery and remained in isolation at the hospital for days afterwards. The other man told me he had gotten it from a minor scratch on his hand. He later had surgery on his leg to remove some of the bacteria. He stated he had 10 staples in his leg from the surgery.

Here are the symptoms from WebMD:

What are the symptoms?
The symptoms of MRSA infection depend on where you''ve been infected.

MRSA most often appears as a skin infection, like a boil or abscess. It also might infect a surgical wound. In either case, the area would look:

Swollen
Red
Painful
Pus filled
Many people who actually have staph skin infections often mistake it for a spider bite.

If staph infects the lungs and causes pneumonia, you might have:

Shortness of breath
Fever
Chills
MRSA can cause many other symptoms since it can infect the urinary tract or the bloodstream.

Very rarely, staph can result in necrotizing fasciitis, or "flesh-eating" bacterial infections. These are serious skin infections that spread very quickly. While frightening, necrotizing fasciitis caused by staph is rare. There have only been a handful of reported cases.

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rushlimpdrug says:
Soooo many stories, but helll what are the symptoms? ? ?
Can anyone pleazzzze post the first signs of this krap? ?
Anyone? ? ?
Helllooooo
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heatherav says:
gopsux,

And thats why me and baby are alive and thousands are dead.

Its common sense.... Its natural.... god gave us natural things on this earth that we can survive on. Why make up weird chemicals that just put your immune system down and make things worse.

On the other hand why not give it a try, if your dying and gonna die from it anyways whats it going to hurt!?!
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jn4ggs says:
so 18k dead in 2005, so we as a nation will spend many times what we do on homeland security, right?

oh thats right, the war on terror is total bs.
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dstribli says:
Our 20 yr old son was diagnosed with MRSA in July 07. He was fine one day and the next in the ER with severe chest pains. It had infected his blood, heart, lungs, kidneys. The infection developed from a scratch on his arm. He had an isolated hospital stay of 16 days and was on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. By the Grace of God he just received a clean bill of health yesterday.


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daisym0m says:
My husband almost lost his hand and part of his arm because of MRSA. He contracted MRSA when a nurse doing an IV on him dropped the thing on the floor and put it in his arm anyway. I couldn''t prove anything because the whole thing was witnessed by a 12-yr-old and she didn''t have credibility. Thank God, he had a hand surgeon that saved his hand and arm. Several operations later and a lot of therapy, he was able to more or less use his hand.

MRSA is nothing to laugh at and we need to take the precautions seriously.
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daisym0m says:
My husband almost lost his hand and part of his arm because of MRSA. He contracted MRSA when a nurse doing an IV on him dropped the thing on the floor and put it in his arm anyway. I couldn''t prove anything because the whole thing was witnessed by a 12-yr-old and she didn''t have credibility. Thank God, he had a hand surgeon that saved his hand and arm. Several operations later and a lot of therapy, he was able to more or less use his hand.

MRSA is nothing to laugh at and we need to take the precautions seriously.
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fitdog1 says:
my son, age 27, was a confirmed community acquired mrsa patient at South County Hospital in Rhode Island on Sep. 27, 2007. Fortunately, he is recovering. Due to the most recent reported case (Westport, CN), I thought the general area might be worth a second look, in terms of a specific outbreak region. Needless to say, this is a very scary illness and I would like to believe we can be as informed as possible. P.S. I had never heard about this prior to a few weeks ago!
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kemonks says:
As an RN for 50 years, it is always annoying when the news media deals wirh an issue that involves health care facilities, you never interview the nurses; just physicians. Physicians do not run hospitals. Granted physicians are big offenders for not washing their hands but it is the nurse that is there 24/7 giving the direct patient care.
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luvcomments says:
I, too, had never been ill in my life (I''m 68 now). Three years ago I needed surgery which went well. After discharge from the hospital I noticed a couple of infections which were difficult to get rid of. Then, I noticed this MRSA thing on my hand. At the same time I saw on tv where many prisoners and guards at the jail also had MRSA. I noticed that, when I ate a lot of natural yogurt with natural cultures and active enzymes, this raised boil-like, pus-containing thing on my hand started to recede; when I didn''t eat the yogurt, the pustule came back and with a vengeance. It took almost a year but I finally was rid of it. I asked a physician friend of mine, primarily involved in infectious diseases for decades, about the yogurt as treatment and he laughed - "there''s no money in it for the pharmaceutical companies" is what he told me but he did say he had heard of these cultures curing this sort of thing before, and he also added that anti-biotices oftentimes seem to make the MRSA worse instead of fighting the bacteria involved.
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