Posted on 10/03/2014 1:56:44 PM PDT by Vendome
“The idea that Ebola will take over the United States is an unfounded fear,” said Dr. Liise-Anne Pirofski, chief of infectious diseases at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Influenza
MRSA
Resistant Gonorrhea
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There are a lot of things that will kill you and they are here now, WHY in the world would we want to import something else if we could prevent it.
So, is some level of hysteria warranted over that aspect of this?
Damned straight and an important object lesson for Paleo Cultures to learn from but, we should suffer for their superstitions...
what is MRSA?
My daughter has had MRSA more than once. Her husband has not had it. Her children have not had it. No one else in our household has had it. Ebola is not the same though I confess none of our family has had Ebola.
There is almost miraculously no damage to the bone. Considered an idiopathic ulceration.
I’ve had MRSA, spent 8 days in the hospital for it. you do not EVER want to have it. ‘nuf said.
CC
Bingo
Yahoo news, nuff said.
Sorry and nope. Saw how Stella suffered from it.
The pain of the infection, the pain of the treatments.
Really pained me to watch a tiny old lady of 96 years go through that but, she was a toughie...
Do you have any long term effects?
Methicillin resistant stapholococcus aurae.
It’s a staph infection that is immune to most types of antibiotics.
I got it because I’m diabetic and wasn’t watching my sugars.
I watch my sugars now.
CC
Methicillin resistant stapholococcus aurae.
It’s a staph infection that is immune to most types of antibiotics.
I got it because I’m diabetic and wasn’t watching my sugars.
I watch my sugars now.
CC
I had c-diff and was in isolation at the hospital. I watched the nurses practice poor sanitation and not wash after leaving my room. C-diff is highly contagious and kills, but Ebola kills more.
Influenza spreads faster than Ebola, but there are vaccines available. Odds of dying from the flu is 0.5/100,000 people.
MRSA is hard to catch. Mostly it affects elderly and people in hospitals. If you get it, it'll probably be a skin infection and can be treated. If you get it in the form of sepsis, you're odds of survival is still 85%. There were 19,000 deaths from MRSA in the U.S. in 2011, so your odds of dying from MRSA is 5/100,000. And that ratio has been falling since 2006.
You might have experience with MRSA with one elderly person, but I'm guessing you have zero experience with EBOLA. (Nor do I). Nowhere in the world has MRSA spread at the rates we are seeing it spread in Africa. To suggest that Ebola and MRSA spread exactly the same way and are equally contagious is irresponsible and dangerous. Stop it!!! You will get people killed!!!
And your last example is a venereal disease that you are unlikely to get unless you engage in risky sexual behavior. In 2010 it caused 900 deaths. There are effective treatments to cure it, unlike Ebola.
Some scarring of the wound site. The abscess was baseball sized. Other than the scarring, no.
CC
MRSA is basically a nasty staff infection. Very drug resistant. My sister died of it. She was a severe diabetic. I gave her a kidney. She went in for a minor surgery and caught it in the hospital. Died in a week. Not uncommon. It’s recommended that anytime you check into a hospital to bring your own disinfectant wipe and clean everything in your room.
Of the countries that have had major outbreaks, none are yet in control of it. Only Nigeria and Senegal managed to stop their outbreaks when cases were <=20.
MRSA is Staph to Nth power.
It is a flesh eating disease and kills 5 times more people in the USA than Ebola does world wide.
Nasty, nasty stuff and the treatments alone can make you commit suicide.
“MRSA will absolutely kill you the same as Ebola. “
I had MRSA. I know all about it from personal experience.
MRSA isn’t in the same league as Ebola. You don’t get MRSA from just being around someone. And it doesn’t make your insides turn to bloody mush. Just one Ebola infected person can quickly spread it to ten others. And Ebola *might* become airborne, no one knows. MRSA won’t.
MRSA is bad, but it isn’t anything like this killer.
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