???
Posted on 02/19/2015 1:19:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
CRE germs are more deadly than the widely-known superbug MRSA, according to authorities.
Officials say the UCLA Medical Center notified the Los Angeles County Department of Health and the California Department of Public Health in late January, as soon as they realized the equipment had been contaminated. The also claim the two scopes were immediately removed and additional decontaminate procedures were put in place.
Experts stress the bacteria is not often spread airborne but generally in healthcare settings through contact through contaminated instruments, bodily waste and open wounds.
Once the superbug enters the bloodstream it is very difficult to treat, health officials say.
UCLA Medical Center said it began the process on Tuesday of notifying the patients who may have been exposed and were offering a free home-testing kit that would be processed at their hospital
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
It’s nice to see they are “concerned”...
It’s just coincidental that all of these diseases (measles, TB etc.) are spreading subsequent to Obama allowing thousands of “kids” from Central America to swarm across the US border.
???
SPOON!
Infectious disease ping...
I guess IMVIC is no longer the way to diagnose the Enterobacteriacae. That group passes their DNA around more than a bunch of Democrats in a gay bathhouse.
“And, isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you’re good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.”
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
OMW! Thank heavens I don’t have any more endoscopies scheduled for the foreseeable future.
Article does not say anything about the disposable part of the endoscope, but it does say that the center disinfected its endoscope according to protocol. Hmmm.... I wonder if there is a piece of the puzzle missing here.
Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae sounds like yet another bacterium to give us nightmares.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.