Posted on 04/14/2017 8:10:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
10 babies within UC Irvine Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) contracted the superbug MRSA — a bacteria that is antibiotic resistant, which makes it hard to treat — during an eight month period, but the public is just finding out about it now.
Contracting the superbug is a huge concern for babies who are already critically ill and have undeveloped immune systems, Finnstrom added.
Officials stress that none of the sick infants died. They were each successfully treated.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Native or immigrant infants?
Home birth doesn’t sound so crazy anymore.
I'm curious who pays the bill for the treatments.
The babies mentioned are NICU patients. It would be tough to manage a 28 weeker at home.
Successfully treated? I wonder if that means these kids will not suffer any longterm effects from the MRSA and/or the treatment?
Not one word on where they may have caught it. Never mind Mexico is 100 miles away. Illegal babies doing the infections American babies won’t.
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