A dangerous virus spreading life-threatening infections is killing more people in United States each year than AIDS virus. This was stated in an article by the Associated Press.

According to the Associated Press nearly 90,000 Americans get affected each year from a drug-resistant staph germ. 46 out of 1000 US nursing home and hospital patients are affected. Most staph cases tend to be relatively mild skin infections, but invasive infections that enter the bloodstream can easily become deadly. The apparent use of antibiotics has greatly limited the effectiveness of the countermeasures. Hospital and nursing home patients, mostly senior citizens, are the main victims, but the deadly staph infections also affect the very young.

This shows that there is a need for the better prevention measures curbing the overuse of antibiotics and improving the personal hygiene procedures among hospital workers. The hospitals should improve the standard hygiene to reduce the spread of the infections.

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Woah, this really is amazing. A lot of people are worried about AIDS, when Staph is more likely to kill them and they haven't even heard of it.

I'm not too impressed..we have had many treatment and prevention campaigns for AIDS and other diseases like Hep A, B or C but bacterial diseases like staph and leptospirosis have always been neglected. Add this to the fact that staphs are extremely resistant both inside and outside the human body and you'll see how dangerous this is.

Later edit: and it's not a virus, it's a form of a bacteria..hope i'm not mistakin`

This post has been edited by Arkan: Jan 6 2008, 02:31 PM

Staph was caught by a teacher at the school I attend.
Even though we ask about it nobody knows what happened =/

I got a couple of Staph infections when I was doing construction in one of the towns ravaged by Hurricane katrina. I had no idea they were serious. I just had a few Scotch and cokes, grabbed a fresh razor, and cut the core of the Staph outta my knee and out of the one on my *bottom* check.

They went away just fine and I haven't had another one since....and it's been over a year.

hey baphomestsayer says that he has got this infection already and nothing happened he is alive to post his formums too then how can this be a deadly disease ? that too more than AIDS .

He has got and now he hasnt that means there is some medication for this so i consider that this is not as deadly as AIDS because AIDS has no medication.

i have also heard about this infection.

but, is this concentrated only in the US. it should be blocked from spreading across various countries. if it spreads, it will become very difficult to stop it.

hope some labs comes out with some solution for this infection atleast to stop it from spreading.

good luck!

Well, most viruses are more deadly than the AIDS virus, seeing as how the virus itself doesn't kill you, it's the opportunistic infections that come along while you have the virus.

And yes, the strain of Staff that you are refering to is the MRSA strain also known as "Merca" and it is very deadly and can paralyze you or even lead to death.

this is really scary, but thanks for passing the info on:)