Less patients die from AIDS in the US because of advances in pharmacology over the years. HIV/AIDS have around for a while now. MRSA, too, have been around for a while but not as widespread as it is today. I remember during the 1980’s whenever we came across a patient with HIV, we could always tell. They had the typical emaciated sallow look with temporal wasting. These days with advances in pharmacology, multi-drug regimen of protease inhibitors, Nucleoside/Nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhitors, fusion inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, etc...the myriads of anti-retroviral therapies that exist have successfully prolong the lives of HIV patients to the point now that you can’t tell anymore by merely looking a patient whether he/she has HIV.
MRSA is a recent phenomenon in the sense that it is more prevalent these days than it used to be. But still, the overall rate across the country is 7-10%. Believe it or not, there are many doctors out there who are oblivious to MRSA and don’t know how to treat MRSA. I see patients every day in my practice who have been to some other clinics and placed on antibiotics that MRSA is resistant against, or have been inadequately treated with poor wound care. Yes, MRSA requires agressive treatment, but it IS treatable.
Agree with that. I think I see what you're saying that the increased prevalence of MSRA combined with the ignorance, is responsible for the deaths. But still - 19,000 is not rare. Now it's possible that it could be rare given patients who recognize its symptoms early and Doctors who both recognize and properly treat it early.
Am I close?
I am saving your method for treating it. Just in case the doctors here don’t know what they are doing as in my older daughters case. Thanks.