Posted on 04/22/2013 11:14:37 AM PDT by george76
Why more patients share rooms with the blood-sucking pests.
As if adapting to health-care reform and curbing the “nightmare bacteria” weren’t challenge enough, hospitals are increasingly plagued by another problem: Bedbugs.
More than a third of pest management companies treated bedbug infestations in hospitals in 2012, 6% more than the year before and more than twice as many as in 2010, according to a survey released today by the National Pest Management Association. The percentage of exterminators dealing with bedbugs in nursing homes has also almost doubled since 2010, to 46%. Bedbug experts also report seeing them in ambulances.
Hospitals are already cracking down on anything that could increase the risk of patient infections, which not only can be deadly but may also lead to more readmissions and reduced federal funding under the Affordable Care Act. While bedbugs have not been found to transmit infections to humans, they leave itchy bites after feeding on people’s blood, which can lead to secondary infections when victims scratch, opening themselves up to bacteria. This is especially problematic in hospitals, where there is a greater likelihood of catching the highly potent and contagious staph infection known as MRSA, says Dr. Jorge Parada, medical director of the infection prevention and control program of Loyola University Health System in Chicago. “You don’t need one more ingredient to increase your risk of infections in the hospital,”
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One simple treatment with DDT will kill the bugs dead!
Oh, wait!
So no worries, Global Warming™ will solve the problem.
The trouble is that since Algore arrived from the kingdom of Frigia on his home world of the ice planet Hoth, he has become the new Jack Frost of Earth, bringing cold temperatures and blizzards wherever he goes.
All he demands is that we meet him halfway, by lowering the temperature of planet Earth to an average -20F, and recognize him as the ruling prince of the planet.
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