New image just for those who wanted an uglier bug
A dangerous strain of a superbug that can be caught outside hospital settings has moved beyond the boundaries of the high-risk groups it first plagued in Canada, causing illness in healthy adults and children in a number of provinces across the country.
[…T]hey reported on the spread of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – known in the medical community as CA-MRSA [… causing] hard-to-treat skin and soft-tissue infections, weeping wounds that will not heal. But they can also occasionally cause severe illness and even death in previously healthy individuals.
Frequent skin-to-skin contact, crowding and suboptimal hygiene are believed to facilitate the bugs’ spread.
But in the United States, where the problem is more advanced than it has been to date in Canada, infections have been cropping up in day-care centres and on sports teams, both professional and amateur.
Conly said U.S. public health authorities estimate the case load runs to the hundreds of thousands.
“Washington, Oregon, California and Texas – they’ve got 15-, 16-year-olds on ventilators and are seeing really quite devastating pneumonias as a result.”
Remember to wash your hands often, it’s the first line of defense.
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We need a federal law to make people wash their hands! It’s a National Security issue.
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Never go into a hospital without washing your hands. Most patient rooms has those pump sanitizers by the door. I know it sounds silly, but often a hospital is the worse place for a sick person to be. You lie in a bed long enough you’ll get hospital pneumonia. S. aureus can be a scary bug if it gets inside of you. Gaseous gangrene!
MRSA is probably the #1 killer in rest homes. It’s everywhere and once a person’s immunity drops below threshold, the infection eventually overcomes the immune system. It seems to be everyone’s last disease.
The bacteria are evolving faster than we can handle. If we’re ever going to realize what a threat this is, we need to stop picturing them as the cute, happy critters depicted in the illustration posted by Uncle Dave. We need to see artist renderings that show nasty, snarling, evil threats to humanity!
At least wipe that smile off his face.
I have seen what this can do to a person. Its like something out of a horror movie. It gives me shivers thinking about what it did to my grandmother.
Even in a modern “Safe” setting like a hospital – its horrible.
My little girl has CF and this is our greatest horror – other than pseudomonis A.
Uncle Dave posted a picture of a cute bacteria? Gee, I can’t see it. Does it have big boobs?
OK, problem with my computer, I booted and now I see the bacteria. Gee, no boobs.
Shoot, if I’m gonna die soon, I wanna go with a smile on my face.
Ummm,
Iv been waiting for the shoe to drop.
This may be what they have been hiding, besides, Mad cow, Bad meat nutrician, Poor Quality Vegitables.
Its interesting that the CLEANER something is, the faster the infestations.
Get a cold in the Fall, and you probably wont get the FLU at the end of winter.
Washing and cleaning things until you rub the finish OFF, wont save you. It CAN make you an easier target. As Mankind hasnt figured out HOw to kill the BAD, and not kill the GOOD with it.
Try spraying your yard for bugs, and the path you killed, is NOW empty of ALL bugs. This is an optimum site for ALL those you didnt kill to find more room to move, to they invade from all sides.. Same thing happens with Bacteria. There are good and bad bacteria, and when you clean a spot, the good ones are killed also, and the bacteria that return FIRST are the ones we carry/place there first, and it gets a RUNNING start, before the GOOD ones have a chance.
Mr. Fusion, if you want to go with a smile on your face, I heard there’s a horse in Seattle that can do it 😉
New bug for those who wanted it (may need to refresh to clear your cache). And Fusion, how about the seven grey boobs on that baby!
Thanks, Uncle Dave. Accuracy of the photo can always take a back seat to it’s ability to inspire fear. Well done!
Thanks, Gary, for #10.
It startled a couple of my neighbors in cubeville when I started laughing like that…
#10, Gary,
ouch !!!
#11, Uncle Dave
Thanks for the kind gesture. Your heart warming consideration just makes my day. The only problem is I only have two hands. Oh well, maybe I can share with Gary.
Well Mike, I was hoping to make someone snort hot coffee out their nose, but disturbing the peace in Cubeville is a close second 😉
Why is this not all over the Canadian news?
16,
REALLY you want that???
Basically its an exposure in Hospitals.
Its been CLEAN, insepticede’d, smashed, stomped on, ALCOHOLED, BLEACHED, PEROXIDED, and IODINED… and it still there.
Lerking in the halls, in most hospitals over 10 years old. ANd spreading.
They killed all the GOOD bacteria, and the BAd stuff is coming BACK with a vengence(yes the movie was very good)…FASTER then the GOOD stuff can fight it, and ITS learned faster then the GOOD bacteria, HOW to fight what we USED on it.
WE fight infections with the toughest MEanest, chemicals possible, AT the time, insted of using something SIMPLE.
20 years ago, doctors posulated that within 50 years, the drugs they USED for Kemo, would be needed to combat regular infections……
Ummm,
Have you ever noticed? That those friends homes that are ABIT DIRTY, and probably have something STINKY in there sink/kitchen areas…DONT get sick as much. ITS acquired immunity.
Do you know WHERE chicken poks Vacine was FIRST developed from??? Dairy maids caught a small infection called COW POKS, and they NEVER caught CHICKEN poks…
KNOW WHY you get a tetnious shot?? the EARTH infront of your HOME carries more germs, for an open CUT, then ANY knife/cutting board/sink/toilet in your kitchen WILL EVER HAVE.
KEEPING UNSICK, only shows that you are going to get HIT BAD, when you DO get sick. Rather catch a SMALL infection, then that BIG one, you WILL.
(16) – they have it on once in a while … old news though, some chickens getting new, scary bird flu in Malasia has more “public interest”