[Radix]

"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."

That is probably an overstatement.

Hospital acquired pneumonia is a serious problem though. I read that 40% of patients who contract nosocomial infections do expire. I can not confirm that, because I only got it secondhand.

The real problems are with ventilator patients. The hospitals call it VAP (Ventilator Associated Pneumonia)and it is a serious concern all around the country.

There have been outbreaks among NFL players as well in recent years, but I don't recall reading much about that in the sports pages.

[ThirstyMan]

"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."
That is probably an overstatement.

I hope it is. It may bee an overstatement for the general hospital population but not her segment of the patient population. Perhaps she sees more of it because she's an occupational therapist and deals with people post op with larger incisions and total joint replacements.
just a guess. I could have mis-heard her too.