Oh, horrors! Another piece of the sky is falling! First it was SARS. Then Bird Flu. Now this! Eeeeeeeeeek!
You've forgotten the keystone of it all, global warming.
It's nothing to laugh at. Hospitals are the most likely places for these superbugs to contaminate, which makes them useless should a pandemic break out.
Sooner or later, it's going to happen. I hope you are well prepared, because society will collapse overnight should something like that happen. A lot of people will be looking for YOUR food and supplies to survive.
Imagine the hordes of city people fleeing the city to escape contact with people who may have the plague and the smell of rotting corpses, expecting to find farms with vaste stores of food.
This is nothing new.
MRSA has been around for at least as long as folks could identify bacteria and virus'.
It has always been lethal and used to cause folks to be isolated in special rooms near CC units.
It is horribly dangerous. I suspect hospitals don't talk about the danger of contracting it, because no one would go into the hospital.
It IS that bad, and it truly is nothing new.
But with the replacement of RNs with cheaper uneducated staff, I would expect to see a rise in the rate of infection.
Do you happen to wear a t-shirt with the motto “NO FEAR” and have other juvenile habits?