1 posted on
03/07/2007 4:46:25 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
This is a tough anerobic encapsulated bug. Usually opportunistic with older people (pneumonia). Wash your hands and all equipment. Fecal matter is a primary transmitter.
To: blam
Bacteria of this and similar types are killing large numbers of people all over the developed (and we should assume, undeveloped) world.
In the State of Arizona alone, the annual death rate from iatrogenous, or hospital contracted, infections is in the hundreds, mostly the "flesh eating bacteria".
But that and other diseases are endemic to prisons and other institutions.
To: blam
What time span is this, that's important. 200 in the past week? The past year?
5 posted on
03/07/2007 5:07:14 PM PST by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: blam
8 posted on
03/07/2007 5:18:46 PM PST by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: blam
The coming solution for the long-term care crisis?
11 posted on
03/07/2007 5:29:56 PM PST by
NonValueAdded
(Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
To: blam
Klebsiella pneumonia is ubiquitous. I find it in sawdust and bedding used by horses. It is often we have this in our contaminated wounds and we have to use all sorts of tricks to get through that thick mucocalyx that it has. Grossly morphologically appearing like Pseudomonas spp is has a little more "snot" factor than Pseudomonas spp...
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