High staph infection rates in hospitals stun public health officials?

Drug resistant breeds of staph bacteria are far more prevalent among hospitalized patients in the United States than previously thought, according to a new survey by an organization of nurses and technicians who specialize in infection control.

The study, released Sunday evening in advance of a San Jose health care convention, screened patients in hospitals and long-term care homes to detect MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is not only resistant to common antibiotics, but kills patients at 2 1/2 times the rate of more drug-susceptible staph germs.

In a survey of 1,237 hospitals and other residential health care centers such as nursing homes, researchers found that 3.4 percent of patients were infected with MRSA -- a rate 8.6 times greater than estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC epidemiologists estimated the rate at 0.4 percent in 2005.

Question - What are your thoughts ?

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Well I have staph. Not sure which kind or how I got it but every other month or so I have an outbreak. Sometimes its caused by an ingrown hair, sometimes a zit, or sometimes a flea, chigger, or mosquito bite.
Its very frustrating because they always put me on Bactrum and Bactrum always seems to give me yeast infections which I have to treat with the suppositories-which tend to give me a UTI-then i have to drink cranberry juice, take cranberry pills, and drink lots of water until it goes away.
Yeah, I hate staph-its a nightmare.

My thoughts are doctors have been abusing antibiotics by prescribing them too much and patients are not taking them correctly (you should take antibiotics for a week or two, which may be longer than how long symptoms last). There is also a thing called darwinism in which bacteria eventually will become resistent to any drug on earth after a matter of time. So my final thought is that we better spend more money on researching antibiotics and sterilization, and less money on fighting "man-made global warming".

You're facts are correct, but not going to a hospital is frequenly not an option.

Lets hope the hospital administraters take heed and realise infection control efforts include isolation of infected patients, the use of barriers such as gloves, caps and gowns, and thorough cleaning of the facilities. "Hand hygiene is a critical component,'' she said. "It is still, first and foremost, the most important way to reduce risk of transmission.''

These are dangerous infections, and there is not enough being done to protect patients from getting them, Hospitals are going to have to do more. They have to be more aggressive, and it's just not happening.'

Pass the Iodine. I also did some research on this for my own personal reasons and I was quite interested in finding out there was a drug resistant type of Staph and it was growing. I also did some research on killing the bacteria and found out something I should have known. Iodine kills it externally better than anything else. Iodine can also purify water but careful with it because it is poisonous. So far it has worked for me. I stocked up because you never know when the government is going to take it off the shelves like many other good over the counter meds have. You can't buy sulfur or paragoric any of the good stuff anymore.
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/iodi...