Physicians fear deadly combo of flu, MRSA Influenza opens door for super bug infections ..

[Arabian]

This is scary and this is why I dont take antibiotics. Its scary that your body builds an immunity to the antibiotics that you take and that when it does something as simple as the flu could kill you. Discus




http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdFlu/Story?id=4727218&page=1

Docs Fear Deadly Combo of Flu, MRSA
Influenza Opens Door for Superbug Infections, Health Experts Say

ABC News Medical Unit

One is a viral illness responsible for an estimated 35,000 deaths every year. The other is a potentially deadly superbug, a horrifying legacy of antibiotic overuse that is now resistant to almost every treatment today's doctors can throw at it.

Even on their own, infection with either influenza or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can lead to a grave situation. But now, health officials are keeping an eye out for an even more harrowing threat -- simultaneous infection with both diseases. And they say that, in children at least, these cases of co-incident infection appear to be on the rise.

So far, what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has learned about the potential link between flu and MRSA in young patients is disturbing.

According to an official health advisory issued Jan. 30, between Oct. 1, 2006, and Sept. 30, 2007, the agency received a total of 73 reports of child deaths due to influenza. In 22 of these cases, the children were also infected with some form of the staph bug, mostly MRSA

 

[SpyWizard]

I wonder if these young children that are getting infected.. were they born and raised in the USA?? or did they or their parents/grandparents come here bringing the infections with them??

Statistics suck, you can make them say anything you want them to..

 

[stosstruppe]

Re: Physicians fear deadly combo of flu, MRSA Influenza opens door for super bug infe

Isn't the spread of MRSA etc a result of poor hygiene / disinfection standards in today's hospitals? Certainly seems to be the angle they're pitching back here in the UK where they're raving on about bringing back ward sisters / matrons or w/e to enforce proper cleaning etc.

 

[Arabian]

Here is the article reference this virus in China. Its just a matter of time before it hits the rest of the world..


A deadly virus has killed another child in eastern China, raising the death toll to 21 as the number of those infected rose to nearly 3000, official news services reported yesterday.

The number of children infected with the enterovirus 71, known as EV71, has risen by nearly 500 since Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
The latest death occurred in the city of Fuyang in Anhui province, which has been the epicentre of an epidemic that has infected 2946 children, the agency said. EV71, which causes hand, foot and mouth disease, is highly contagious and is spread through direct contact with the mucous, saliva, or faeces of an infected person.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/th...spreading-virus/2008/05/02/1209235156032.html

 

[Arabian]

You now the Black Plaque started like this and it killed millions. The bad thing is they have not developed anything to combat this.

 

[Arabian]

The bad thing is this is only what the Chinese government has let us know so far. Its probably much worse than this...... You know when you pack people into a country like rats then the natural selection process takes over to curve the population, it happens all of the time in the animal kingdom!!

 

[SpyWizard]

Re: Physicians fear deadly combo of flu, MRSA Influenza opens door for super bug infe

The bad thing is this is only what the Chinese government has let us know so far. Its probably much worse than this...... You know when you pack people into a country like rats then the natural selection process takes over to curve the population, it happens all of the time in the animal kingdom!!

ahhhh.. now that makes sense, so you are saying it's mother natures way of "thinning the Herd"

 

[biggernu]

Re: Physicians fear deadly combo of flu, MRSA Influenza opens door for super bug infe

ahhhh.. now that makes sense, so you are saying it's mother natures way of "thinning the Herd"

its all evolution, only the dominate, strong species survive. viruses are smart organism, they adapt and change rapidly, form different strains, more deadly then the previous.

 

[Arabian]

Re: Physicians fear deadly combo of flu, MRSA Influenza opens door for super bug infe

ahhhh.. now that makes sense, so you are saying it's mother natures way of "thinning the Herd"

Well, what else could it be?

 

[Arabian]

Re: Physicians fear deadly combo of flu, MRSA Influenza opens door for super bug infe

its all evolution, only the dominate, strong species survive. viruses are smart organism, they adapt and change rapidly, form different strains, more deadly then the previous.

Exactly