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POPSThe MRSA Virus Blog Base Our blog allows you to recieve free information on the MRSA Virus. Gain information on MRSA statistics, treatment and lots more.
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POPSAdvice on the MRSA Virus Learn all about the MRSA virus by checking out this MRSA blog. Details include the symptoms, treatment options, and lots more information.
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POPSMRSA Helping you identify symptoms of MRSA by showing you MRSA symptoms pictures and videos as well as providing you with general MRSA virus information.
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POPSA Medical Controversy "National gay rights groups were quick to label such talk as “hysteria,” even as researchers as the university scrambled to clarify their findings. On Friday, it issued an apology, saying their release had “contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading. ndeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed on Wednesday that the disease was not sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the agency said in a statement, and is widespread in hospitals and among hospital workers."
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POPSMRSA USA300 hits whom it wants. “It’s really meant to be used to mean all inclusive, including the men-who-have-sex-with-men population,” he said. “It’s not just gay people that get it,” he said. “You can get it anywhere.” Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which helped finance the study, affirmed on Wednesday that the disease was not sexually transmitted or limited to a certain type of person. It is transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, the agency said in a statement, and is widespread in hospitals and among hospital workers. “These infections occur in men, women, adults, children and persons of all races and sexual orientations,” the statement read, adding that while the particular strain identified in the report had been found in gay men, it had also been found in people who were not gay. (NYT)
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POPSGood hygiene can stop staph infections. "Soap and water is the cheapest intervention we have." It generally takes contact to spread the staph germ outside hospitals. It can cause abscesses and boils, but the most dangerous symptom can be life threatening blood infections. 1 in 3 people carry a treatable staph aureus- or Golden Staph, but one million carry the MRSA strain. MRSA has the ability to live on unwashed surfaces and can 'catch a ride' on unwashed hands.
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POPS French Clay Surprisingly Potent Cure For thousands of years, people have used clay to heal wounds, soothe indigestion, and kill intestinal worms. Though the practice has declined in modern times, the recent rise of drug-resistant germs has scientists looking more closely at these ancient remedies to learn exactly what they can do and how they do it. In laboratory tests at ASU's Biodesign Institute, co-PI Haydel, an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences, showed that one clay killed bacteria responsible for many human illnesses, including: Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), penicillin-resistant S. aureus (PRSA), and pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli). It also killed Mycobacterium ulcerans, a germ related to leprosy and tuberculosis that causes the flesh-eating disease Buruli ulcer.
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POPSParents panic over MRSA "Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says extreme measures to 'disinfect' an environment such as a school really are not the most important procedure in controlling the transmission of MRSA. Dr. Srinivasan says while it is understandable that people are concerned it must be emphasised that MRSA is a common cause of skin infection and almost all of these infections are readily treated by commonly available antibiotics and by draining the lesions. Dr. Srinivasan says that hand hygiene is by far the best means to prevent the spread of all diseases. Experts say the key to dealing with MRSA is early diagnosis and then the completion of a full course of antibiotic treatment. The public needs to watch for wounds that do not heal and are not helped with normal antibiotic treatment."
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POPS Methicillin-Resistant Staph Or MRSA If the mortality estimates are correct, the number of deaths associated with the germ, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, would exceed those attributed to H.I.V.-AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, emphysema or homicide each year. By extrapolating data collected in nine places, the researchers estimated that 94,360 patients developed an invasive infection from the pathogen in 2005 and that nearly one of every five, or 18,650 of them, died. The study points out that it is not always possible to determine whether a death is caused by MRSA or merely accelerated by it.
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POPSStaph fatalities, may exceed AIDS deaths Washing the hands is one of the main habits to be remembered, particularly among medical staff. one of the most common means of transmission, is in a place like an outpatients ward, where one case of the bug, can be spread across a ward due to being carried on hands, or wiping nose, without using the antiseptic wash that is in most hospital basins. This basic habit is being stressed again in training hospitals. They may need to develop new strains of antibiotic to deal with it. There are remarkable examples of antibiotic chemicals produced naturally, by creatures for their own defense.
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