superbug (Page 5)

Superbugs are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that usually pass from person to person in hospitals, because of the large amounts of antibiotics that are administered there. The sad fact is, you can leave the hospital even sicker than you were when you entered!?especially since we now know that doctors are spreading superbugs with their cellphones. Now it has been discovered that simply staying in a room in the intensive care unit previously occupied by a patient with treatment-resistant bacteria may increase the odds of acquiring such bacteria yourself.
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Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs are a real problem in hospitals, where they’re created, but they’re even more of a problem when they walk out with discharged patients, and with their visitors and the health workers who take care of them, and infiltrate the general population. But now someone has invented a kind of CSI for dangerous superbugs?a superbug detector.
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Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are back in the news. These are caught and passed around mainly in hospitals, because so many antibiotics are used there, but occasionally they escape and invade the “real world.” Some people think that Morgellon’s may be a superbug.

The official name for superbugs is MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). It’s a type of staph skin infection that’s being increasingly seen in communities across the nation that is resistant to antibiotics, such as cephalexin and dicloxacillin, that are most commonly used to treat skin infections. MRSA is the origin of all those stories about “flesh eating” diseases.
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As more and more children in third world countries are immunized against polio, scientists are discovering something strange: new forms of the disease are cropping up, as the new forms of the virus are mutating into existence in places where the disease should have been eliminated. In other words, polio is becoming a kind of superbug.

The number of confirmed cases of polio in Namibia has hit 19, and 150 more cases of the disease are suspected. Until this recent outbreak, the disease had been eradicated there for over a decade. The new outbreak has affected mostly adults and the new version of the disease is much more virulent than the old one was. These adults were probably never vaccinated.
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