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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

containment is not possible. We see nearly as many MRSA infections acquired in the community as in the hospital. The bug has been around for years. It is not one of the things that keeps me awake at night as a hospital worker. I suspect I have been colonized for years, and probably the rest of my immediate family as well
This is not a bug that causes a lot of problems for people with normal immune systems. Now talk about pseudomonas, VRE, or acinetobacter and I might agree with you. THese are much rarer, more virulent, and MAY have some utility in trying to contain.


25 posted on 01/02/2009 7:26:42 AM PST by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: Mom MD
Poor choice of words on my part. I should have said many people would be too lazy to assist in our attempts to contain MRCA infections.

There are likely many more sources than we have suspected and not all of them naturally occurring either as there is some justifiable speculation about weaponizations. The CDC is really looking at this and there is also a special division within the USDA working to detect other sources.

28 posted on 01/02/2009 8:31:11 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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