1972 SuperBug
Looks harmless.
Posted on 03/13/2013 8:56:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A new threat emerges as a strand of untreatable and potentially deadly bacteria has begun spreading throughout the U.S., and health officials say one of these bugs is in Los Angeles.
The bacteria, called C.R.E., is spreading throughout hospitals all across the country. These “superbugs” are resistant to almost all antibiotics, have high mortality rates, and can spread their resistance to other bacteria.
Dr. Suman Radhakrishna, the chair of infection control at the California Hospital Medical Center, says that these bacteria are usually found in the colon.
“They can cause bloodstream infections, urinary type infections, and bowel infections,” Dr. Radhakrishna said.
These infections have been fought by hospitals and long-term care centers for years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the superbugs have now been found in 42 states.
Dr. Radhakrishna reports that this bug is allowed to spread by the combination of excessive antibiotic use with the failure of health care workers to wash their hands.
“If they don’t wash their hands between patients, they are liable to carry the infection from one person to another,” Radhakrishna said. “So the entire community gets exposed to these bacteria, and then its a problem.”
The Los Angeles County Department of Health says they first became aware of these infections in 2010.
Just spreading the diseases that Americans won’t.
Great...
What are the symptoms of these?
Have these people never considered changing disposable plastic gloves between patients in addition to thorough hand washing.
They should isolate the infected patients from the rest of the hospital community too, I should think.
Have these people never considered changing disposable plastic gloves between patients in addition to thorough hand washing.
They should isolate the infected patients from the rest of the hospital community too, I should think.
Crazy as it sounds, nurses are not required to have a course in microbiology. Many of them do not understand universal precautions like changing gloves between patients. Take care of your health!
“The bacteria, called C.R.E., is spreading throughout hospitals all across the country.”
Which is one of the reasons I don’t go to the doctor or the hospital, unless I am unconscious and can’t refuse to go.
Looks harmless.
I suppose if enough people catch this and survive, then the population as a whole will develop a natural resistance?
And after the EMP attack...it will be one of the few vehicles still operable....
If someone is known to have a superbacteria, then there are many precautions taken. If it isn’t known, then hands may be washed or latex gloves worn, but it can still be passed around on a sleeve, etc.
” CDC guidance for controlling CRE rests on traditional infection control strategy: rigorous hand cleaning by staff and visitors; isolating infected patients and requiring gowns and gloves for anyone contacting them; cutting antibiotic use to slow the development of resistant bacteria; and limiting use of invasive medical devices, such as catheters, that give bacteria a path into the body.
But the measure that may hold the most promise is contentious: screening patients for the bacteria so carriers can be isolated. There’s disparate opinion over who should be screened. Every patient? Only those whose history puts them at high risk for infection? Only those showing symptoms?”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/29/bacteria-deadly-hospital-infection/1727667/
You and me both!
I follow a strict regimen of hot sauce and beer. And whatever else is in season (winter is short on greens and vitamin D)
They are collapsing all around me at work; I reject their ninny sicknesses in the Name of Our Lord.
Got over a year’s worth of sick leave on the books it’s all smoke....
Anyone worried about antibiotic resistance is someone who is unknowledgeable about phages.
I had to look phages up.
Seems pretty exotic.
“Are Phage Viruses the Forgotten Cure for Superbugs?”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-phage-viruses-forgotten-cure-for-superbugs
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Which reminds me. While in Whole Foods men's room Sunday, as an employee who had left his apron and chopping knife outside, finished his vile stall business he then approached the sink and turned on the cold water, pretended to wash for 3 seconds and scurried away and back to produce. I left without saying anything. Normally I would, it wouldn't be the first time, but I was so disgusted I thought better of it.
And we know this goes on all the time everywhere, right? No wonder bacteria spreads so widely, rapidly. It aught to be a capital offense consistent with an over-sized coke. Auld Nanny Bloomberg missed the mark methinks.
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In Los Angeles?
Huh..
Ping me if it crosses the Mississippi.
These “superbugs” are resistant to almost all antibiotics, have high mortality rates, and can spread their resistance to other bacteria.
Sounds a lot like Marxism; fortunately, we'd never have to be concerned the feral government might deliberately unleash a plague.
Looks harmless.
Not if it gets stuck in your colon....
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