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Monday, March 17, 2008
MRSA type staph infection
By VictorM:Visit our discussion forum for more details about this post by rreppy, which is part of the topic "Epidemic countdown update":
Here in the Tampa area recently, a woman was sent to jail for the heinous crime of stealing a cheesesteak sandwich from a Publix. In jail she caught a MRSA type staph infection, which tends to proliferate in institutional settings. Three days later she was dead!
She was sent to an ICU and everything, but none of the IV antibiotics were effective against this strain. Staph germs have the ability to transfer bits of DNA with each other that contain useful information, like acquired resistance.
So now there is a MRSA strain out there, escaped from the hospitals, that can kill you despite anything medical science has. The post-WWII era of antibiotic miracles is over; it took single-celled creatures approximately 60 years to figure them out. Three generations of people have grown up considering infectious disease to be a trivial thing, easily fixed. They're not going to understand that those days are drawing to an end.
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