Comments on: "Superbug" Deaths In U.S. May Surpass AIDS

90,000 Americans Get Potentially Deadly Infections From Drug-Resistant Staph Germs, CDC Says

[slim1h2o]

Doctors,,,ya gotta love''em. Over prescribing drugs to treat the symptoms, instead of trying to figure out the root cause. They take the lazy mans way out.

Shut up, abd take your medicine..........LOL

[gmond]

getitfree is super bugging me.

[getitfree]

Sue that superbug. It might git offended..

[getitfree]

Oh sure, I believe yaz. Yer high class, super dupper good smell''n, rich people of a angelic stature. Yer farttts smell like roses.. Yer shyyyt don''t stink. Ya puke on the floor after yer champaign parties, and they scrape the stuff up after yaz left and sell it as butter toffee..

But stink is the way''a the world! And everybody smells.. Everybody. Even you.

[getitfree]

I still remember when my buddy''s power went out overseas. And he came back a month later a freezer fulla fresh supermarket meat, and he opened that freezer door, no power, and out poured a waterfall of maggots. "How''d they git there?!" He said. "All that meat was new!"

"They were in the meat." I said. They''re in you..

[getitfree]

Ya wanna make believe? Ya wanna pretend the world is clean? And white? And spotless? Nature''s watch''n. And she don''t like it.

Within the confines''a Mr. Clean cleaner thrives a bug whose tell''n hisself: "Its me! And only me!" Not: "Its Mr. Clean."

[getitfree]

Studies prove that its us folks who eat our boogers and don''t clean up our houses that are the ones most resistant to "superbugs". All that makeup and stencil and fancy white teeth antiseptic has made you people too pretty for reality. To me? Sexxxy is showering twice a month.

Maybe they should start building hospitals outta barns.

[getitfree]

You just need stronger cheese.

[alphaa10-2009]

rnekich-- research the subject of bisphosphonates. This startling breakthrough holds the first promise in years of stopping the superbug in its tracks.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/13/earlyshow/health/main3055367.shtml

Be aware that stringent isolation protocols are less than perfect-- especially when staff members do things like use the same blood-pressure cuff on all patients.

One study found even doctors unwittingly spread disease by allowing their own ties to drape across a patient''s abdomen. Many staff-- doctors and nurses alike-- sometimes ignore handwashing requirements (whether they do so knowlingly is another issue).

In all events, make sure a family member is present in the room whenever possible. A family advocate can monitor situations and make sure the right thing is done at the right time. Always take notes-- with date, time and the names of those involved.

[alphaa10-2009]

A member of my family recently died from a MRSA-driven pneumonia. All the powerful antibiotics available-- vancomycin, rubimycin, and others-- could only slow the disease. Worst of all, even the antibiotics created an edema eventually as life-threatening as MRSA itself.

Apparently, my family had chosen the wrong time to have a crisis, and no drugs were widely available which might have saved our family member.

Only recently, some 45 days after the death occurred, has the nation''s health media awakened with alarm to what even US hospitals now term an "epidemic" out of control.

Advice to the wary-- avoid the hospital, if you can. Almost every US hospital is infected with super-staph MRSA, and most institutions simply will avoid talking about it. With declining effectiveness for the super-antibiotics, the situation begs for emergency measures, not silence and more "damage control" by the all-too-powerful hospital associations of the country.

[rnekich]

I have two extremely specialized surgical procedures comming soon and now I feel that I should demand isolation protocal through out the entire hospital stay. Along with bringing a case of Lysol Disenfectant spray to the Hospital with me, and with all who enter my room to wear anti-biological suits with re-breathers helmets atatched to them. Hospitals can only do so much much with HMO''S standing over them telling them what they can do and what they can not do. We in America have such a shortage of professionally trained nurses that the HMO''s have given up on personal clenliness while working in our nations Hospitals over Profit resulting in drug resistant staff imfections that kill.

[swwils]

This has been around awhile and now it suddenly is an epedemic.MRSA was in ottercreek correctional facility in 2002,2003.The private ran prison hid this from the families of the inmates and quarantined the place.Locked us down.It was uncontrolled and spread by inmates in the wieght yard and self tattoos.Bleach was the final solution,and big time sickness.We were not treated because we were offenders ,I guess a lower form of life to some.I was a drunk driver, so I suppose in the eyes of the system I deserved Staph,I didn''t catch it thanks to my military training and Gods Blessings.But a lot of so called undesireables didand never recieved medication.I don''t know what happened to the van loads that left the grounds and never returned.Everyone better take heed to this report,that is some nasty stuff.It will kill you ,and we must find an antibiotic that will crush it.So I think the speaker of the house can give up her jet for funding.Iraq can throw some money in also,God knows we have spent plenty over their.

[searingtruth]

Tick, Tick

Fellow citizens, the truth is that our present can only be as stable as our future.

For too long we have hobbled from decade to decade, generation to generation, and millennium to millennium, myopically adhering to superfluous battles that can never be won. Never once as a species forwarding or embracing an all encompassing path towards a certainly better future.

Our excuses have been many, our reasoning mostly incoherent, and our lack of vision as a species, certainly fatal.

For in the meantime, as each tick of the ages has passed, the critical threats posed and ignored by our species discordance have increased exponentially.

Pandemic famine and disease, massively destructive weapons, fatal atmospheric and climate change, super volcanic eruptions, catastrophic space body impacts, Orwellian societies of unparalleled oppression, and many other global catastrophes too numerous to list here, waiting to befall us at any moment.

...

My friends, the truth is that if we do not fight for and secure freedom today, the time will very soon come when it will be almost impossible to do so.

In retrospect, when one soberly considers the critical challenges that we must face together to survive as a species, our differences, at times, can become almost imperceptible.


Excerpt from A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[nurse70-2009]

CULTURES SHOULD BE PERFORMED BEFORE AN ANTIBIOTIC IS PRESCRIBED, WHETHER IT BE FOR A WOUND,URINE,OR SPUTUM M.R.S.A IS CONTRACTED AND CAN HAVE AN OVERGROWTH OF FATAL PROPORTION.THOSE AT HIGHEST RISKS ARE PEOPLE WITH WEAKENDED IMMUNE SYSTEMS SUCH AS; A.I.D.S./H.I.V. PATIENTS,DIABETICS,ELDERLY,PEDIATRICS,CANCER PATIENTS, AND ANY BODY ELSE WITH A LOW WHITE COUNT.ONCE YOU CONTRACT M.R.S.A. YOU ARE A CARRIER.YOU DO NOT "GET IT AGAIN". IT NEVER LEFT.IT CAN RE-EMERGE IN ANY OF YOUR BODY''S SYSTEM WHEN YOU ARE WEAK OR ILL. STAPH LIVES IN OUR ENVIRONMENT,THE RESISTANT TYPE IS M.R.S.A. AND IT JUST MEANS IT HAS BECOME RESISTANT TO METHACYLLINE.WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY AND THOROUGHLY.DON''T DEMAND ANTIBIOTICS FROM YOUR PHYSICIAN,DO A CULTURE AND BE SURE AN ANTIBIOTIC IS WARRANTED.SENSITIVITY TESTS WILL TELL THE PRESCRIBER WHICH DRUG WILL TREAT YOUR SPECIFIC PROBLEM.HOSPITALS ARE NOT THE ONLY PLACE TO BE INFECTED.ANYWHERE THAT PEOPLE ARE HOUSED IN CLOSE QUARTERS IS SUSEPTABLE TO M.R.S.A.- JAILS,SCHOOLS,LOCKER ROOMS,AND NURSING HOMES.TO THE FEMALE WHO STATED THAT SHE WAS CURED FROM M.R.S.A. BY OREGANO? MAYBE YOU SHOULD SPEND A LOT LESS TIME PROCREATING AND A LITTLE MORE TIME ON EDUCATION. THAT IS UNBELIEVEABLY STUPID! WHO ACTUALLLY HAS *** WITH THESE STUPID PEOPLE? AND IT''S STAPH INFECTION... NOT STAFF INFECTION. IF YOU WILL PUBLISH YOUR ADDRESS I''M SURE MOST OF US WILL MAIL YOU SOME CONDOMS AND HOPEFULLY STOP THE STUPIDITY BEFORE IT SPREADS! O.M.G.!!!

[sftodd]

The problem is that we have a system that rewards illness, not health. Any stupid republican can understand that as long as you reward illness and punish health, you will get more illness.

[hammerp562]

Your News on the Superbug is needed. I have had several small bouts of this MRSA. It is in the skin for now, very easy to transfer to someone with an open sore. It is very hard to get it out of your system. While in the hospital the last time, I noticed the workers were not as careful as they should have been. I can see why this stuff spreads. I understand if it gets into your bloodstream it can be deadly.

[tinnyfry]

Your piece on superbugs was interesting but perhaps it only told part of the story: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; MRSA, evolved over the past several decades due in part to the over prescription of antibiotics particularly in the 50s and 60s, but also by patients failing to finish their Rx. This allowed staph a. to morph as opposed to die. (The typical antibiotic kills by destroying the cell wall of the bug, preventing it from multiplying and killing it.) Staph a. is not new. It''s subsequent generations morphed because they were not effectively killed in the first place. S. Lund, RN

[tinnyfry]

Your piece on superbugs was interesting but perhaps it only told part of the story: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; MRSA, evolved over the past several decades due in part to the over prescription of antibiotics particularly in the 50s and 60s, but also by patients failing to finish their Rx. This allowed staph a. to morph as opposed to die. (The typical antibiotic kills by destroying the cell wall of the bug, preventing it from multiplying and killing it.) Staph a. is not new. It''s subsequent generations morphed because they were not effectively killed in the first place. S. Lund, RN

[tinnyfry]

Your piece on superbugs was interesting but perhaps it only told part of the story: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; MRSA, evolved over the past several decades due in part to the over prescription of antibiotics particularly in the 50s and 60s, but also by patients failing to finish their Rx. This allowed staph a. to morph as opposed to die. (The typical antibiotic kills by destroying the cell wall of the bug, preventing it from multiplying and killing it.) Staph a. is not new. It''s subsequent generations morphed because they were not effectively killed in the first place. S. Lund, RN

[tinnyfry]

Your piece on superbugs was interesting but perhaps it only told part of the story: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; MRSA, evolved over the past several decades due in part to the over prescription of antibiotics particularly in the 50s and 60s, but also by patients failing to finish their Rx. This allowed staph a. to morph as opposed to die. (The typical antibiotic kills by destroying the cell wall of the bug, preventing it from multiplying and killing it.) Staph a. is not new. It''s subsequent generations morphed because they were not effectively killed in the first place. S. Lund, RN