[steve86]

The community that is experiencing a spread beyond the hospitals is the HIV infected gay community.

Myrddin, that is wrong. We cleared up that misconception the other night and dont_mention_the_war acknowledged he was wrong. The gay population is more susceptible but many affected are not gay and are in rural populations.

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To: Dont Mention the War

It is starting to spread, but not amongst the general population

You are wrong. Read any dermatological or epidemiological publication.

Example:

In a case-control study, Dr. Coffin and coinvestigators identified 447 cases of community-acquired MRSA between 2001 and 2003. Of that group, 134 cases (30%) of infections were due to MRSA. There was no change over time in incidence of MRSA in invasive infections; however, MRSA incidence rose sharply in children with soft tissue S. aureus infections, from less than 20% in 2001 to nearly 50% in 2003, although the investigators qualified this finding by the risk of possible referral bias or other factors.

Are you saying these community-acquired cases in children are not the general population?

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/474245

9 posted on 05/30/2004 9:09:25 PM PDT by BearWash

[Myrddin]

The MedScape citation confines references to children. That was not the community under discussion in the original post. If I have time to divert to the original post, I'll make comments there. It is pretty much off topic here.

[Domestic Church]

I've seen lots of MRSA this past year at the local hospital...most in chronically ill but plenty of cases in healthy young folks who picked it up in sports injuries or children on the playground. It's in the soil. It's on the Drs cellphones, it's everywhere.