Posted on 02/19/2015 6:09:26 AM PST by artichokegrower
A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics infected seven patients, including two who died, and nearly 200 others were exposed at a Southern California hospital through contaminated medical instruments, UCLA reported Wednesday.
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They know, they just won’t say as that would harm their narrative and agenda.
Noticed this morning, the MSM can help but say Ronald Reagan in every sentence about this story.
You know its at the UCLA hospital named after him so he’s to blame.
MSM rule — always tie negatives to conservatives
I've got a damned good guess. All they need to do is trace it back to the last patient upon whom it was used who didn't have any means to pay for it. Additionally, if the hospital had to charge it out to Medicaid, the probability of my suspicion being true gets even higher.
The White House will soon be claiming that this superbug isn’t Islamic.
Consider this for a moment. The scopes WERE sterilized but perhaps the bug is so bad it survived the sterilization procedure. Bad news if so.
OTOH, those armpit wipe downs aren’t effective anymore. /s
At least forty-four genera and over 130 species of Enterobacteriaceae have been recognized in that Family.
Carbapenem is an “antibiotic of last resort”, when the other antibiotics have proven ineffective. A good analogy is a weapon that kills *all* the intestinal flora to get the bad species of bacteria.
“According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, CRE was first detected in a North Carolina hospital in 2001. Since that time, it has been identified in health care facilities in 41 other states. Studies showed that in 2012, 3% of patients in Chicago-area ICUs carried CRE. The same data indicated a 30% infection rate in long-term care facilities (e.g. nursing homes), *though not all patients are symptomatic*.
During just the first half of 2012, almost 200 hospitals and long-term acute care facilities treated at least one patient infected with these bacteria.
“By 2011, CRE was reported in at least 22 countries.”
On the plus side, the vast majority of cases are hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) or “nosocomial” infections.” Again, just because you have the bacteria in you does not mean that you become sick.
As a great irony, the *avoidance* of antibiotics may be the most effective way to escape this problem, as having healthy intestinal flora will prevent drug resistant bacteria from harming you, because they will be “shouldered out” by your healthy bacteria. That is, unless there is an *absence* of healthy bacteria, often caused by antibiotics, the drug resistant bacteria cannot have a dangerous “bloom”.
Just having *some* of these species of DR bacteria in our bodies won’t hurt you, unless you kill off so many of your healthy bacteria that they can have a bloom.
One of the most effective ways for hospitals and other facilities to prevent nosocomial infections is through strict antibiotic controls. This means doctors no longer issuing *preventative* antibiotics, and determine what a particular bacteria causing an infection is, before prescribing just the right antibiotic to treat it.
Brian Williams was the first American to catch this disease.
Because, you know like, dude, disinfecting medical instruments is not eco-friendly.
I bet that is it. Some EPA ruling not to use steam as it will warm the earth!
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