Staph Infection Kills Virginia Student, Prompts Closing of 21 Schools

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[Gopher Broke]

Very sad news....prayers to the family of this young man....

[rockabyebaby]

Prayers for Ashton and his family......there is another young man named Cody with the same illness, he however, is doing better, prayers for Cody.

[AppyPappy]

Dang. They shut down every school in Bedford County.

[AppyPappy]

Dang. They shut down every school in Bedford County.

[TommyDale]

They should call it what it is commonly known at hospitals, MRSA. Deadly.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

MRSA is a strain of staph bacteria that does not respond to penicillin and related antibiotics but can be treated with other drugs.

I've been reading that drug-resistant bacteria strains are proliferating, due in no small part to the irresponsible use of anti-bacterial ingredients in hand soap and other products. The nice thing about antibiotics is that they can kill harmful bacteria inside our bodies without killing us. There are plenty of chemicals to kill bacteria outside of our bodies, such as alcohol. Letting the antibiotic weapons we've gained over the last century become useless because they're being used as marketing gimmicks is incredibly irresponsible.

[Greg F]

Wash your hands, soap and hot water as you leave any institutional facility (school, prison, hospital, gym). Keep an alcohol hand cleaner in the car, wash again. Wash when you get home before you play with the kids. Don’t take pens and stuff into the institution if you can help it; the staph can get on that and you can carry it out of the place. Staph will live for a few days on stuff. Take off your clothes and don’t wear them again until they are washed. Make sure any cuts are bandaged if you are going into an institution. Keep your nails short so you don’t touch it, scratch yourself a little wound, and get the infection.

Lots of staph in schools, prisons, nursing homes.

[Sunshine Sister]

I wonder if this is really true. I made the same statement as you about anti-bacterial soap and was soundly ridiculed about it. Who is right?

[Kay]

This particular strain of MRSA must be unusually virulent and unique if it is shutting down these schools. This is quite peculiar. I’d like to hear their reasoning.

We are seeing 60% MRSA in our skin abscesses — affecting all walks of life (rich, poor, educated, etc) as well as all ages, including infants. It is definitely an epidemic but we would have to shut down our whole state if we followed Virginia’s example. Currently, no studies have shown successful methods to eradicate MRSA in people who have had MRSA or who are colonized with it.

[ghostrider]

Letting the antibiotic weapons we've gained over the last century become useless because they're being used as marketing gimmicks is incredibly irresponsible.

Did you ever see "Planet of the Apes?" We live in such a time. Now, its "Planet of the Corporations." When there is a corporate profit to be made, people are expendable dirt. The will and survival of corporations is paramount.

[SnarlinCubBear]

And don’t forget to wash after being in the pharmacy, picking up meds. We share pens, etc. there.

[Deguello]

The CDC has a lot of research material availble for the asking...they just cannot make a statement/stance about this as per four years ago.

[Teacher317]

This particular strain of MRSA must be unusually virulent and unique if it is shutting down these schools. This is quite peculiar. I’d like to hear their reasoning.

Their reasoning? One word only: liability.

Nothing matters more than revenue to school boards.

[LibWhacker]

Great tips, thanks! Copied it.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Time to bring on the bacteriophages!!!!!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I wonder if this is really true. I made the same statement as you about anti-bacterial soap and was soundly ridiculed about it. Who is right?

I don't know for a certainty, but I don't see any reason to doubt that such products promote the evolution of bacterial strains resistant to the anti-bacterial ingredients. If these anti-bacterial ingredients are used by medicine in the human body, I'd be behind banning their use in household sanitary products.

[Kay]

Those nasty “corporations”! Come on. Be reasonable. Don’t join the liberal emotional wagon. Even the little businesses are encorporated.

Corporations are people working on projects. Sure they sell things and believe in their products. Where would we be without corporations? We wouldn’t have the new AIDS anti-virals, diabetic meds, research on prostate cancer, IPODs, jobs/stock market/ retirements, tires, autos, farm machinery, inexpensive food per budget (compared to what people paid for food 50 yrs ago), etc.

Open your eyes. Nobody and nothing is perfect. The invention of the light bulb led to less sleep. Does that mean the light bulb was a bad thing?

[ari-freedom]

everyone wants the quick fix, the magic diet pill so that they can eat all they want and still lose weight, the easy credit card debt to pay for groceries...

[petitfour]

Howard, is that you?