The media and Liberals keep that running tally of how many troops have been killed in the war in both Afghanistan and Iraq, dragging it out every once in a while to make their anti-war point.
This is the FIRST I've heard about the peril from staph and the death rates from it. Who is campaigning to guarantee the sterility of hospitals? Where are the fund-raisers for staph victims?
Get my point yet?
There has been quite a bit of coverage on the threat of MRSA. Sterility in hospitals isn’t the main problem, although lack of sterility in hospitals can make the problem much worse. The problem is that around 25 - 30 percent of people carry staph bacteria on their skin. Combine that with open skin incisions, and patients with compromised immune systems, and there is going to be a problem. It is not a direct result of any decision made or lack of action (for the most part).
The deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are the direct result (positively or negatively) of the decision to place our soldiers in that country, their assigned mission, rules of engagement, and military strategy. The death toll in Iraq is one way to determine the success or failure of the mission.
You can make a logical argument that the public needs to be better informed about staph infections, and MRSA. But the death tolls in Iraq and cases of bacterial infection are not comparable at all.