Staph Germ Infects Hospitals

Drug-Resistant Bug Creates Growing Concern Among Health Officials

(AP)  A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.

At least 30,000 U.S. hospital patients may have the superbug at any given time, according to a survey released Monday by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

The estimate is about 10 times the rate that some health officials had previously estimated.

Some federal health officials said they had not seen the study and could not comment on its methodology or its prevalence. But they welcomed added attention to the problem.

"This is a welcome piece of information that emphasizes that this is a huge problem in health care facilities, and more needs to done to prevent it," said Dr. John Jernigan, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At issue is a superbug known as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which cannot be tamed by certain common antibiotics. It is associated with sometimes-horrific skin infections, but it also causes blood infections, pneumonia and other illnesses.

The potentially fatal germ, which is spread by touch, typically thrives in health care settings where people have open wounds. But in recent years, "community-associated" outbreaks have occurred among prisoners, children and athletes, with the germ spreading through skin contact or shared items such as towels.

Past studies have looked at how common the superbug is in specific patient groups, such as emergency-room patients with skin infections in 11 U.S. cities, dialysis patients or those admitted to intensive care units in a sample of a few hundred teaching hospitals.

It's difficult to compare prevalence estimates from the different studies, experts said, but the new study suggests the superbug is eight to 11 times more common than some other studies have concluded.

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http://www.robprince.net/mrsa/forum-usa.asp?action=success

Visit this forum to find out just how devastating the MRSA issue is and how ill equiped doctors are.

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More Known Cures for MRSA Your Doctor Does Not Know About or Won't Tell You


3. Phage Therapy:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/19/48hours/main522596.shtml
http://www.evergreen.edu/phage/addendum.htm
http://www.phages.org/main.html forum
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/01/08/story4.html

www.woundcarecenter.net I called this clinic and they are still doing phage therapy. The nurse could not say why it was not on the website any longer.

http://www.phagetherapycenter.com/pii/PatientServlet?command=static_home?They state that there is a plan for a phage therapy clinic in Mexico, awaiting government approval.
http://www.phages.org/PhageInfo.html


4. Colloidal Silver:
http://www.fflt.org/Covalent%20Summary.htm
www.NutriSilver.com is one of the better silver products on the market.

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1. Allimed:
http://allimed.us/pdf/article/April2005%5B9%5D.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=25704
http://www.allicin.co.uk/id3.html
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=5056
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3344325.stm
http://www.allimax.us/allimax_004.htm
http://www.allimax.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=2&Itemid=2

2. Ozone therapy: see oxidative therapies thread at www.HealthSalon.org
And: http://www.activatedoxygen.co.uk/mrsa.htm
http://www.activatedoxygen.co.uk/pdfs/Mrs%20F%20Fuber.pdf
http://www.activatedoxygen.co.uk/pdfs/Caduceus%20Story.pdf
http://www.activatedoxygen.co.uk/pdfs/MRSA%20Eradication.pdf
some oxidative therapies are safe to do at home. Go to this yahoo group for expert advice: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/oxyplus/ some leading ozone experts in North America answer questions at this forum

[cfin5]

I suggest experimenting what coliform bacteria does to this superbug staff bacteria.

[cecilarea]

to: mtredhawk200 It's corporate medicine, which cuts costs at the basic level of care, that is responsible for untold deaths.

AMEN. This is truth! I agree that many of those responsible for 'cuts', poor pay, and poor quality services should have a 'vacation' in their own ICU units, watching a mop pusher spread the germs from one cubicle to the next while everyone shares donuts on the the central hub desk. Noone reads the charts and the Medical Director-Intensivist walks through the quarantined sections sans gown or gloves like she couldn't possibly contaminate a fly.
(Been there-seen it all)

[cecilarea]

Blaming the victim/patient for MRSA is a new SPIN for the healthcare industry. The fact is these superbugs reside in healthcare settings. Their presence is denied and/or hidden by the facility staff and administration. Only when disclosure and accountability publicly exposes the extent of the damage will hospitals become serious about stopping the spread of the MRSA bacteria. Hospital personnel should be cultured or tested to determine if they are carriers and if they are positive they should be sent home until they test clean. All patients on admission and discharge should be tested for the bacteria to determine if they are free from it or could carry the disease into the home or community. Those who test positive should be treated. The industry knows how to reduce risk, they ignore it because it is both an acknowledgement that they have a problem and an expenditure to stop the problem. Now that MRSA is becoming too large to conceal the industry is spreading the word that the community is responsible for 'infecting' the hospitals. Meanwhile they continue to bury their victims and their heads in the sand.

[mtredhawk200]

Certified nurses aides now perform many tasks that used to be nurse's duties. In some states only 6 weeks of training are required to be a CNA. It's corporate medicine, which cuts costs at the basic level of care, that is responsible for untold deaths. The job is heartbreaking, physically taxing, and the pay stinks. There is never enough time to do the job right when one worker is responsible for too many patients. Why take on the responsibility for a patient's life when you can make more money as a waitress?! Too few nurses and CNA's to handle patient care is a leading cause of death in nursing homes and hospitals. Hopefully some of the stockholders will show up in their own compromised hospitals!

[annia1233]

I would say that 5% is a very conservative number. Every patient coming from a nursing home with some invasive life saving device has MRSA.
I bring two points. There is a shortage of nurses tremendous all over the country, then schools are trying to cranck their nurses and may be lowering the standards; or we are accepting foreign credentials. all in all, the standards are getting weaker for professionals, the work load for nurses is gigantic, and many facilities are training people to do specific tasks that has been traditional ly the scope of BSN nurses. So those skill workers do not have the level to perform these jobs and the love for the patients nurses have