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 ...
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population.
Never heard the Central American theory. Got any links? That sounds interesting.
Heard it on Coast. That makes it highly speculative, but search on Gunnar Thompson. He has considerable credibility
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population.
Someone ought to point this out to Ward Churchill!
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The Japanese have much easier access to antibiotics than Americans, thereby leading to antibiotic resistence.
It better happen before Congress eliminates the military.
Last day to get your entry for the Nenana Ice Classic is today!
Do you have a link?
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