Superbug Sweeps San Diego (Bacteria Has Potentially Fatal Effects)

NBCSanDiego ^ | August 18, 2006

[maineman]

raided a small apartment house and found 900 illegals living there. 900 in a small apartment? Really?..Wow.

[pepperdog]

I carry a bottle of hand sanitizer with me everywhere I go. It is absolutely disgusting to see the number of people who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom. It seems people no longer practice even the most basic personal hygiene.

[Reactionary]

At Children's Hospital in Cincinnati there have been many cases of MRSA here recently. Also, cases of another resistant bug, although I can't remember the name of the thing.

[Dustbunny]

H2O2 WILL kill the bugs (better than alcohol),

My mother came home from the hospital with a MRSA infection. I was told by the doctors that alcohol is what kill's bacteria. Guess that is why 'Germ-X' etc. contains 82% alcohol.

[joyce11111]

Last week there was an article in my hometown newspaper about this.
And, the article said this skin disease was spreading across the USA.

[muggs]

Thank, I hadn't heard.

[pollyannaish]

Journalism at it's best. Sheesh.

[newzjunkey]

Well, it could 'average' over a case per day. If you have 10 cases in seven days that's less than two per day but over a case per day...

Local ERs are jammed by minorities and poor who tend to use ERs are their first contact with medical professionals regardless of seriousness according to studies.

[armymarinemom]

Our youngest had a fast moving infection recently after falling off of horse and scraping his elbow. Within 18 hours he had serious swelling, fever and erythema spreading into his chest.
It did respond well to Clindamycin. The whole thing had me plenty worried for a couple of days. I have seen MRSA do major damage to people from minor injuries.

[djf]

Time to stock up on aloe vera and neosporin!

Hey, I was at the farm supply yesterday and they were OUT OF Terramycin! (animal tetracycline).

That never happened in all the years I been goin in there...

[The Westerner]

The grammar is atrocious. Makes this report almost unreadable.

[Minutemen]

Very interesting, but why isn't the bug doing the biting identified in the article?

[Texas Songwriter]

MRSA has been present as nosocomial infectious agents for many years. Commonly acquired in hospitals. Methcillin has been a reserve drug for many years for Staphlococcus aureus, once that particular strain cultured from a patient was found to be resistant. So then they go to Methcillin. Now, methcillin is no longer efficacious against this particular strain.

[It's me]

I read apartment house meaning the entire apartment complex. Which could have 900 people living in in quite crowded. I think you read apartment, as in single apartment. In which 900 people living would be impossible.

[BJungNan]

Anyone for closing the borders? Nah, that would be racist (scratch, itch).

[TASMANIANRED]

It is huge in the gay community.

Chest shaving and other illicity activities.

[BJungNan]

Illegals from Mexico have about 75% of capacity booked for the next few years.

The sign in the emergency room at Harbor UCLA Hospital (Southern California) reads, "Waiting time is 19 hours." That is not a typo. You read it correct. 19 hours.

[Bravada]

This is called CA-MRSA...that is, Community Acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus...as compared to HA-MRSA...that is, Hospital Acquired MRSA which has been around for a while. As a retired nurse, I am not finding it difficult to see how HA became the 'mysterious'CA. I see nurses and other hospital personnel in the community in their 'scrub' uniforms. They go everywhere in these supposed 'uniforms.' I see them in restaurants, grocery stores, bookstores, office supply stores...everywhere. Everything they touch has the potential to carry unknown amounts of hospital-grade bacteria (the worst!)that can be picked up by anyone. I wish somebody in a position of authority could put this obvious 'two and two' together and insist that healthcare personnel not wear the same clothing in and out of the hospital. Call me old-fashioned.

[nickcarraway]

You are absolutely right. I see people in scrubs all over the place from the supermarket to restaurants.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Staphylococcus aureus is already national.