[Paleo Conservative]

who died three days after scratching his legs on gorse during a training exercise in Devon.

Can someone translate that into American?

[IronJack]

Oh, horrors! Another piece of the sky is falling! First it was SARS. Then Bird Flu. Now this! Eeeeeeeeeek!

[ThirstyMan]

This is a serious health problem. People who stay in the hospital for any length of time are especially vulnerable, no matter what age.
I was talking to a health care professional this week and I thought she said that 1/4 of the hospital patients are getting MRSA.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. MRSA is interesting.

[Husker24]

there were 106 cases of PVL-MRSA in England and Wales in 2005 and one confirmed death from necrotising pneumonia caused by the infection.

One death out of 106 cases is not a 75% mortality rate.

[Wiseghy]

A major reason for rapid rise in the US health costs, is a growing shortage of hospitals.

The capital costs of building new healthcare facilities is extremely high. One of the many reasons for this is the need for advanced air-fitration to stop the spread of diseases like this one.

As it stands, areas and countries without hospitals with very strong infection control could find that their healthcare facilities are the number one vector for illnesses like this one.

[mutley]

Bacterial assassin at large.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Ping/bump for later reference.

[Centurion2000]

It's coming.

[saleman]

I had an MRSA infection. For some reason it's very prevalent in this area. An acquaintance got the necrotizing pneumonia. Mine started out as what looked like a spider bite. My dad's a pediatrician and recognized it when he saw it. I had it drained in his office. NOT a pleasant experience. He put me on antibiotics for a week. Should have been two cause it came back. This time I went to a surgeon and he drained it AGAIN.

Just so you'll know, when they "deaden" the site the stuff doesn't work very well cause of the acidity of the infection, I'm told.

[Doc91678]

Hmmm, Maybe Iran would like some. Perish the thought, I wouldn't suggest spreading the staph infection in Iran.

[auto power]

Is this disease the same as this one or in the same group:?

CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - better known by the acronym CJD) is always fatal, and it kills quickly. For Jack Bennett (in good health and an eye doctor), it was diagnosis to death in just three weeks.

Government statistics show at least 5,000 Americans and nearly 200 Hoosiers have fallen victim to CJD in the past twenty years. Most of those victims are over age 50, but there are also cases like that of Zane Mingus, age 32.

[CedarDave]

I imagine the pharmaceutical companies are working to develop antibiotics to fight these bacteria. On the other hand, if Hillary care or some variant of it is passed that penalizes drug companies for successful research we may not get the new drugs needed to fight this coming pandemic. When such "penalize the greedy drug companies" legislation is proposed, Congress must be reminded that private industry is most commonly the developer of new medicines, either directly or through industry sponsored research at medical universities and research institutes.

[pray4liberty]

I’m beginning to wonder if this is some form of a terrorist attack, or a plague on our nation.

[Centurion2000]

Scientists at the University of Texas in Houston and Lyon University in France conducted experiments into PVL to work out why it was so lethal. They took two batches of normal staphylococcus aureus bacteria and modified one of them to produce the PVL toxin.

Do they realize they were a bioengineering a weapon here?