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To: HipShot

Did you watch the one posted here?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169117/posts?page=1684#1684

I actually find this one more disturbing than the executions.


2,195 posted on 07/14/2004 4:12:08 PM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Calpernia


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171506/posts

Drug-resistant germ spreading outside U.S. hospitals (MRSA can become fatal)
Yahoo News ^ | 7/15/04 | Maggie Fox

Posted on 07/14/2004 6:51:04 PM EDT by Libloather

Drug-resistant germ spreading outside U.S. hospitals
Thursday July 15, 1:46 AM
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug-resistant "superbug" found in hospitals has a close cousin that is affecting athletes, prisoners and small children in growing numbers across the United States, disease experts said on Wednesday.


Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA can become fatal if not treated with the right antibiotics, said Dr. Daniel Jernigan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


"MRSA is showing up in places it had never been seen before -- as a predominant cause of skin disease among children in some regions of the country, as clusters of abscesses among sports participants, as the most common cause of skin infections among inmates in some jails and among military recruits and rarely, as a severe and sometimes fatal lung or bloodstream infection in previously healthy people," Jernigan told reporters.


Most commonly it takes the form of an abscess or boil, and doctors routinely try to treat it with penicillin-based antibiotics, Jernigan said. These will not work against MRSA.


2,197 posted on 07/14/2004 4:13:11 PM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Calpernia

Just watched it. It's too late for those children, isn't it.


2,208 posted on 07/14/2004 4:38:54 PM PDT by HipShot (All of our ammunition should be dipped in pig fat)
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