Even when recorded, tens of thousands of deaths from drug-resistant infections – as well as many more infections that sicken but don’t kill people – go uncounted because federal and state agencies are doing a poor job of tracking them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the go-to national public health monitor, and state health departments lack the political, legal and financial wherewithal to impose rigorous surveillance.
As a result, they miss people like Natalie Silva of El Paso, Texas, who contracted a MRSA (pronounced MER-suh) infection after giving birth. She died from infection-related complications nearly a year later, at age 23.
Silva’s sisters fought a successful battle to get the hospital to cite MRSA on her death certificate. Still, her death went uncounted: The Texas health department doesn’t track deaths like hers from antibiotic-resistant infections, and neither does the CDC.
MRSA deaths not even being counted as cause of death by CDC
The "uncounted infectious disease"
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You have to wonder if MRSA is sourced to homosexuals or illegal aliens since the government is so hot to cover it up.
But they are making LOT’S of money, so who cares?
Sometimes I think you’d be better off recuperating at home, than in the hospital.
Surgeon: “The operation was a success, but the patient died in recovery.”
These days, I try to be a happy guy who doesn’t get explosive about things, but man I hate these damn incompetent, dishonest, lazy, stupid doctors and our ridiculous scam of a health care system.
It’s easy to kill MRSA. Ozone kills MRSA. Dead. No antibiotics, no resistance, nothing. Dead as the proverbial doornail. There are myriad ways that ozone can be used safely and easily to cure a patient with MRSA.
The doctors won’t use it. “It’s not FDA approved,” they say as they let people die for lack of some stamp of approval from a bureaucrat. A pox on all of them.
At least my family is safe. Yours too, if you do a little research.
Well the CDC may not track MRSA infection deaths but they are ready to cite handguns as a national health crisis.
But who's doing the covering-up? Hospitals? Insurance companies?
I suppose any death certificate with MRSA as cause of death will inevitably spark a lawsuit.
If only we had open borders with Millions of Peasants from third world hellholes coming in to the USA it would get better, no??
The fastest way to FIX most of our Problems is 12 FEET OF ROPE!
But the way I get through each day is he is better being with the Lord than I am still here in this hell hole called Earth, my hope is, Trump will win and Our Country will be back on track...
About 6 years ago I contracted MRSA, post surgery. It started at the wound site and I was put on Vancomycin for weeks (I was able to come home after a few weeks, but continued the Vancomycin treatment at home, due to a PICC line that was inserted.)
If anyone finds they have contracted a resistant infection, the first thing you need to do is get the hospital to call in an Infection Disease doctor. They’re the ones that have knowledge to help with resistant infections. The hospital won’t suggest this, unfortunately, the patient has to insist on it. If no Infection Disease doc is called in, then the hospital can slide without siting the cause of the infection.
Most MRSA is hospital acquired and the doctors know this. Next surgery I had the surgeon literally stapled the dressing over my incision so that no nurse or other hospital personnel could have access to the incision line.
If you can stay out of the hospital, that’s your best bet, but some of us aren’t that fortunate. But MRSA is now in the “community”...so we have hospital acquired outbreaks, and “community acquired” outbreaks. I’ve known two young men, who contracted MRSA, and they surmised it was from gym exposure.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/camrsa-eng.php
The scary part, now there is Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. (Vancomycin is the 1st line of defense against MrSA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancomycin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus
Another problem where resistant “bugs” are a big deal is with urinary infections. Except these are not infections that are hospital borne...these are from strains of E Coli that have become resistant to most antibiotics.
http://www.webmd.com/women/news/20150429/uti-antibiotic-resistance#1
This concerns me very much. Thanks for the ping, TIK.