Here's a gram stain of staph. It's the dark clusters. Looks like a deep purple.
Posted on 10/16/2007 9:50:20 PM PDT by Lorianne
CHICAGO — More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. The report shows just how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting.
The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That's an "astounding" figure, said an editorial in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, which published the study.
Most drug-resistant staph cases are mild skin infections. But this study focused on invasive infections - those that enter the bloodstream or destroy flesh and can turn deadly.
Researchers found that only about one-quarter involved hospitalized patients. However, more than half were in the health care system - people who had recently had surgery or were on kidney dialysis, for example. Open wounds and exposure to medical equipment are major ways the bug spreads.
In recent years, the resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and it has been spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and in poor urban neighborhoods.
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Scary stuff.
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This has me really concerned.
My nephew is working on his blue belt in Kung-fu (Kaju kenbo kung-fu). He also assists in teaching little kids the moves, so he frequently comes into skin contact with others.
To say I’m concerned is an understatement!
OK - so we need a ribbon color. Pink’s been taken, so has red and yellow....hmm what color is staph?
Avoid hospitals.
Better add nursing homes, schools & prison to the list.
“Avoid hospitals.”
“Better add nursing homes, schools & prison to the list.”
Another article mentioned military recruits. This has the potential to be REALLY bad.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Genuinely funny.
How are they going to blame this on Reagan?
Is there an agenda here in this article?
Are they trying to convince us that not washing our hands is more deadly than risky (don't ask...) unprotected sex?
-PJ
According to PJ O Rourke, Diarhea is the big killer. But nobody wears brown ribbons...
His point is that gatoraide would save millions upon millions of lives, at very little cost. Instead, we spend gazillions of dollars fighting aids, because that is hip, or politically correct.
If you’ve never bought a PJ book, you’re missing out on some of the best reading the bookstore offers. Funny as heck, true, and completely supports conservative values.
YELLOW. The Staphyloccous aureus bacteria gets its species name from the golden color it produces.
Unfortunately that color ribbon is already reserved for hostages and POW's.
Yes it does. My daughter had MRSA which we believe she got from the hospital. They couldn’t cure it & started to cut infected parts from her legs. I gave her Mesosilver & she started to get better very soon after. Of course her doctors said it wouldn’t work but we say it did. She took 4 tablespoons a day orally & we just poured it on her sores. The sores started to heal within a week.
Here's a gram stain of staph. It's the dark clusters. Looks like a deep purple.
AIDS deaths are slightly higher than deaths from cirrhosis of the liver and suicide (at least on the last Top 10 things that will kill you in America list from a couple years ago).
Nevertheless, scary stuff.
It’s been known in the past as Staphylococcus Aureus,
“Golden Staph” for the color of the colonies it forms.
Bush’s Fault.
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