Posted on 04/03/2007 12:48:18 PM PDT by Froufrou
A 1-year-old boy died last year from pneumonia after becoming infected with a community-associated strain of the MRSA superbug that is resistant to many antibiotics, it was learned Monday.
The death was the first in Japan of a patient infected with community-associated MRSA.
Officials at Kanagawa Prefecture-based Kitasato University Hospital, which treated the boy, said that another hospital diagnosed him as having pneumonia after his parents complained he had a fever and cough.
The 1-year-old was diagnosed as having MRSA the same day he was transferred to Kitasato University Hospital and given antibiotics, but his condition quickly worsened. The boy died about 10 days after being transferred to the hospital.
Since the progression of the infant's pneumonia was rapid, hospital officials examined the bacteria that caused the illness, and found that it was not the hospital associated strain of MRSA, but a powerful community-associated strain that destroyed the membrane of white blood cells
The boy had not been hospitalized in the past, and it remains unclear how he contracted the bacteria.
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp ...
Ping for any other info you may have...
OK, now THIS is a bug worth worrying about, not that lame-ass “bird flu”.
So would MRSA patients need to be segregated like that fella with TB down in Phoenix?
She got rid of it with no after-effects.
Hospitals are the worst place for a seriously ill person to be.
My guess would be yes, but I didn’t see where this boy was quarantined. It seems like this stuff is always in Japan or China or Africa to begin with. Or is it just me?
I agree... USA always seems to be the destination, not the breeding ground.
Bush’s Fault
Awright, which country is missing the bug from their biological weapons cache?
Yes. If only we’d signed that Kyoto Treaty. (sniff)
The infectious disease folks told me to follow the medical plan to the letter or there could be repercussions...Guess they were talking about death or confinement.
Odds are good the Black Death originated in Central America and was spread to Europe and then to China. About 1/3 the population died.
Mebbe that’s the bug Ahmanutjob keeps...never mind...
Like the “Ahmanutjob”—at least I can pronounce it.
Hubs contracted an eczema type skin rash after staying at a foreign-owned hotel. We’ve paid tons of money for various doctors and preparations. I’m still wondering in the back of my mind if there was a bite or something.
Wasn’t that behind the Black Death? Fleas on wharf rats?
Came in to Iceland on Central American furs and to Europe next year.
Exactly
MRSA ping...
A US company, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, has a novel drug that is supposed to work well on MRSAs. Probably not available there yet. I think they just got European approval for their drug.
How about this one?
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