Just an FYI

[Mrs Behavin]

There is now some alarming news about an antibiotic resistant staph infection called MRSA. It's been going around but getting more serious.

According to a new study, it’s spreading at a much faster rate than expected. Read at work last night that, a four-year-old from New Hampshire and a 16-year-old from Virginia both died this week from the illness.

MRSA comes from bacteria many of us carry under our fingernails.......(wash your hands!!) I cant tell you how many times I wash my hands when Im at work consistently.

If you see someone that looks like they have a "spider bite" 9/10 its staph and/or possibly the MRSA staph. Be very careful

 

[GraceAbounds]

I read about this yesterday too. Good idea in posting it.

 

[dt3]

Everytime I see there's a new post in here, I think I'm gonna get to yell at a spammer

 

[Homer]

doctors have over prescribed antibiotics for things like the commen cold, that and the fact people don't always finish their antibiotics when they start feeling a little better has made things worse buy making diseases more resistent/immune to antibiotics.

 

[Thebest]

I read about this on the news, I hope I don't get anything like that!:willy_nilly:

 

[AUDRAA]

do you all know that alot of you carry this and dont even know it and arent sick from in because youre not immunocompromised its a true statement. Heres another thing we notice about 3 cases a day of MRSA shocking huh?

 

[Mrs Behavin]

read this WJLA - 10 Men Contract Staph Infections in NY

 

[Sparkler]

MRSA has become fairly common in hospitals here in Ireland and the Uk too.Its pretty dangerous and easily spread and people have died from getting dressed wounds infected by it.Its spread has been put down to among several different contributing factors such as a lower standard of cleaning through employing contractors to clean hospitals,doctors and nurses not scrubbing up properly between treating different patients and a resistance of the MRSA bug to Antibiotics.