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Speaking Of Saturn In Virgo In The News - Here Come The Health Fears
Outtakes and Various Other Sundries…
Drug-Resistant Staph Germ’s Toll Is Higher Than Thought
The claim is this is now killing more people than the AIDS virus.
Rob Stein writes for the Washington Post:
A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday.
The microbe, a strain of a once innocuous staph bacterium that has become invulnerable to first-line antibiotics, is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections and nearly 19,000 deaths each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated.
Although mounting evidence shows that the infection is becoming more common, the estimate published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association is the first national assessment of the toll from the insidious pathogen, officials said.
“This is a significant public health problem. We should be very worried,” said Scott K. Fridkin, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC…
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and how about that football helmet that was all over the news tonight, it measures head impacts to student athletes. this is to try and prevent permanent damage from concussion.
Oh heck, don’t tell me that stuff. I just got over my panic session about botulism. I woke up with swollen lymphs nodes today and basically flipped out. I have bubonic plague, it’s the end of me. Au revoir cruel world.
And then we have this:
TB-tainted man crosses border 76 times…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071017/NATION/110170103/1001
O_O …. this brings to mind saturn in virgo may be the perfect time for something like the worst predictions of the bird flue to happen. *panicking slightly*
My dad had MRSA in addition to all his other health issues, and every time he had to be hospitalized he had the big CONTACT PRECAUTIONS sign on his door. His family mostly ignored it, on the grounds that if we hadn’t caught it from him already at home, we probably wouldn’t get it from him in the hospital. But theoretically we were supposed to wear gowns, gloves, and masks every time we went in his room.
He always said he hated having to stay in the hospital, because that’s where all the sick people were.
Oh, Becca! I hope your dad is feeling better…my poor co-worker had a staph infection…then two absessed wounds, and then was recently diagnosed with MRSA. It’s a terrible thing.
I’m working at boosting my immunity with oil of oregano, sleep, and broccoli. Oh, and whiskey. Tee hee, just kidding!