Posts Tagged ‘health care’

Michelle Wells MRSA Story

December 7th, 2009

Since last year Michelle’s husband was sent to Iraq to do his duty for their country. While there he broke out with these boil like sores. Since he was in war they gave him an antibiotic and sent him on his way. This may be a good time to let you know that the R in MRSA means resistant. Resistant to Antibiotics. So he went about his job there with not a second thought.When he came home he was broke out again with 2 boils and man did they look nasty. Michelle sent him to the Williamsport hospital. They gave him more antibiotics and also too a culture of the puss that was seeping out and said they would call if anything showed up.

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1.2 million hospital patients Risk Drug Resistant Staph

October 10th, 2009
William Jarvis

As many as 1.2 million hospital patients are infected with dangerous, drug-resistant staph infections each year, almost 10 times more than previous estimates, based on findings from a major new study in 2007. And about 48,000 to 119,000 hospital patients a year may be dying from Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections, far more than previously thought, the study reveals. » Read more: 1.2 million hospital patients Risk Drug Resistant Staph