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.

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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`

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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

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Staph is getting a lot of press these days. With good reason. It's causing a lot of trouble.

Staph is a bacterium not a virus. It has always been around. You could culture it anywhere; house, yard, hospital, skin. There are many, many species of Staph, but the one we are talking about is Staphylococcus aureus--shortened to "Staph".

Within the Staph aureus species, different strains have varying degrees of resistance to antibiotics. Mostly from frequent exposure to antiobiotics. If you kill off all the Staph that are sensitive to penicillin, the only ones left are the ones resistant to penicillin. Survival of the fittest. Most Staph in the US has been resistant to penicillin for years.

MRSA stands for methicillin resistant Staph aureus. (methicillin is an antibiotic) the term was adopted because it helped doctors select which antibiotic to use. If it is methicillin resistant, don't use methicillin or it's relatives.

In the last 5-10 years, MRSA has been developing resistance to other antibiotics also. And the bad actor of Staph typically is an infection acquired while you are an in-patient of a hospital. These strains have been resistant to most antibiotics so are very tough to treat. Also these days if you are in the hospital you have either just had surgery, a baby or are very sick. If you aren't real sick, your insurance won't let you be there!

If you get a MRSA infection in a joint, (hip, knee, etc), you have a huge problem. Usually another surgery to drain or irrigate it. Weeks or months of IV antibiotics to fix it. If you get MRSA pneumonia when you are 85 in a hospital, already weak from heart disease, kidney failure or whatever put you in there, you have a potentially lethal situation.

Most of the routine skin infections you get from a cut or scrape will be Staph and depending where you live, they may well be MRSA. But at least for now, most community Staph infections can be treated with normal pills.

So what can you do?
First, don't take antibiotics you don't need. Wait out colds and respiratory infections. They are caused by viruses and antibiotics don't help anyway.
Second, if you get an open wound, wash it thoroughly, apply ointment and bandaid. It is a lot better to avoid an infection than have to treat it.
Third, if a minor infection does happen, try warm compresses or soaks. If it start to spread, streaks develop, or a lump starts to form, see your dr.

Sorry for the long post, but the topic is important enough to cover in depth.

 

 

 

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