Thread: The new staph and Illegals

Dr Michael Savage is on the radio right now. As you know, he has a Phd in epidemiology.

He has done a study on the new staph infection invading the U.S. He stated this staph is endemic in Mexico, Africa and China. The illegals are bringing them into the country, into the hospitals where they are attended to and visit others, and their kids go to the schools.[/b]

Turn him on now,,,,,,,,,

http://streamingradioguide.com/streamin ... =News/Talk

I have Savage on now...Savage really tells it like it is, and it is frightening!

There are a lot of SERIOUS illnesses coming across the border into the United States. It's should be alarming and mainstream media is ignoring it.

Figures.

CHICAGO — More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.

Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. The report shows just how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting.

The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That's an "astounding" figure, said an editorial in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, which published the study.

Most drug-resistant staph cases are mild skin infections. But this study focused on invasive infections — those that enter the bloodstream or destroy flesh and can turn deadly.

Researchers found that only about one-quarter involved hospitalized patients. However, more than half were in the health care system — people who had recently had surgery or were on kidney dialysis, for example. Open wounds and exposure to medical equipment are major ways the bug spreads.

In recent years, the resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and it has been spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and in poor urban neighborhoods.

The new study offers the broadest look yet at the pervasiveness of the most severe infections caused by the bug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. These bacteria can be carried by healthy people, living on their skin or in their noses.

An invasive form of the disease is being blamed for the death Monday of a 17-year-old Virginia high school senior. Doctors said the germ had spread to his kidneys, liver, lungs and muscles around his heart.

The researchers' estimates are extrapolated from 2005 surveillance data from nine mostly urban regions considered representative of the country. There were 5,287 invasive infections reported that year in people living in those regions, which would translate to an estimated 94,360 cases nationally, the researchers said.

Most cases were life-threatening bloodstream infections. However, about 10 percent involved so-called flesh-eating disease, according to the study led by researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There were 988 reported deaths among infected people in the study, for a rate of 6.3 per 100,000. That would translate to 18,650 deaths annually, although the researchers don't know if MRSA was the cause in all cases.

If these deaths all were related to staph infections, the total would exceed other better-known causes of death including AIDS — which killed an estimated 17,011 Americans in 2005 — said Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft of the Los Angeles County Health Department, the editorial author.

The results underscore the need for better prevention measures. That includes curbing the overuse of antibiotics and improving hand-washing and other hygiene procedures among hospital workers, said the CDC's Dr. Scott Fridkin, a study co-author.

Some hospitals have drastically cut infections by first isolating new patients until they are screened for MRSA.

The bacteria don't respond to penicillin-related antibiotics once commonly used to treat them, partly because of overuse. They can be treated with other drugs but health officials worry that their overuse could cause the germ to become resistant to those, too.

A survey earlier this year suggested that MRSA infections, including noninvasive mild forms, affect 46 out of every 1,000 U.S. hospital and nursing home patients — or as many as 5 percent. These patients are vulnerable because of open wounds and invasive medical equipment that can help the germ spread.

Dr. Buddy Creech, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said the JAMA study emphasizes the broad scope of the drug-resistant staph "epidemic," and highlights the need for a vaccine, which he called "the holy grail of staphylococcal research."

The regions studied were: the Atlanta metropolitan area; Baltimore, Connecticut; Davidson County, Tenn.; the Denver metropolitan area; Monroe County, NY; the Portland, Ore. metropolitan area; Ramsey County, Minn.; and the San Francisco metropolitan area.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302396,00.html

AFTER READING THIS, AND SEEING THE REGIONS INVOLVED, I TEND TO BELIEVE SAVAGE'S THEORY!!!!

Students At 2 Schools Develop 'Superbug'

Schools Send Letter To Students, Parents

Authorities have confirmed cases of the "superbug" at two Connecticut high schools.

The day after officials at Weston High School announced a student had been diagnosed with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, an invasive disease caused by a drug-resistant staph, officials at Newtown High School said a student there had been diagnosed as well.

The announcements came the same week a government report was released detailing an overall estimate of MRSA.

Weston High School officials sent a letter (Read The Full Letter) to students and parents on Tuesday addressing a confirmed case of MRSA, which enters the bloodstream or turns into the so-called flesh-eating disease.

Parents of students at Newtown High School received a letter on Wednesday informing them that a student at the school had been diagnosed with MRSA. (Read The Full Letter)

More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," according to the government report. In recent years, the drug-resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and has also been spreading through gyms, locker rooms, prisons and poor urban neighborhoods.

Another case of possible MRSA has not yet been confirmed at Weston High School as officials await culture results.

"We are notifying everyone in the event that there are other possible cases; we are assessing the situation to help limit the spread of this potentially contagious infection," the letter read.

School officials said that classes were in session on Wednesday in Weston.

An invasive form of the disease is being blamed for the death Monday of a 17-year-old Virginia high school senior. Doctors said the germ had spread to his kidneys, liver, lungs and muscles around his heart.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/14360325/detail.html

Go to this site for a photo of the disease.....

http://www.wfsb.com/iteam/10366506/detail.html

Anderson 360 CNN is going to cover this story tonight! he just announced it.

Ugh, Good Gawd, everyone -- WASH YOUR HANDS, especially when you're out. Get your kids to wash their hands also.

Scares me to death. And I took care of two MERSA patients myself today ...eeek.

They say we've also brought this on ourselves, by the overuse of antibiotics, and antibacterial soaps, etc. Bugs are just finding a way to get around all the barriers.

Take care of your hands. Keep them lotioned and don't let any areas that are raw or reddened or open get in contact with surfaces.

You just have to be careful these days.

Well after listening to Micheal Savage...talking about Chinese restaurants...I don't think I will ever eat out again...at least not for a very long time

A four year old in New Hamshire has died from this infection... Fox News 10:34 am