Drug-Resistant Staph

[🜲 PoLiX]

For years health authorities have warned of the growing threat posed by drug-resistant bacteria, but most of us have been half-listening. Not anymore.

 

A virulent strain of bacteria that resists many antibiotics appears to be killing more people annually than AIDS, emphysema or homicide, taking an estimated 19,000 lives in 2005, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical !@#$%^&*ociation. The recent death of a 17-year-old high school football payer in Virginia is a tragic reminder that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, can prey on otherwise healthy people.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/d...u-need-to-know/

 

Heard about this years ago, but never thought much of it... !@#$%^&*.

[ThunderJam]

I like in Montgomery county Maryland (only 30 mins from parts of Virginia) and I recently got an email from the superintendent of public schools. Was a notice about this, apparenly a dozen montgomery county school kids have been infected, mostly student athletes, though one or two were even in elementary school. My brother's friend said he heard someone had a leg amputated, but I donno if that's true or if that even makes sense with what the disease is.

[Smong]

While trying not to feed the discussion, I suggest you don't look into medical stuff too much otherwise you might start thinking you have the symptons.

[🜲 Samapico]

What's a football payer anyway?

[Maurauth]

thats what you get for using antibacterial soaps in anywhere other than hospitals and food production factories