…Of those people trying to keep this problem (maybe I can safely say epidemic now??) swept under the rug. It was only a matter of time. If the flurry of traffic and comments here at MRSA Notes and over at MRSA Resources as well is any indication, along with the slurry of emails I have received about MRSA this week, it is officially out of the darkness and into the light. Hallelujah!
I can’t even begin to name all of the media outlets who have run this story this week, but no doubt you have seen it. You could really hardly have missed it. Its been on every morning, afternoon and evening news program there is, and has been on the front page of every newspaper across the country, and a darned big lot of them worldwide. Just because I am a Texan, here is the article from this mornings Dallas Morning News referencing the study that has caused so much uproar:
In the new study, Dr. Fridkin and his colleagues analyzed data collected in Connecticut, Georgia, California, Colorado, Oregon, New York, Tennessee, Minnesota and Maryland, identifying 5,287 cases of invasive MRSA infection and 988 deaths in 2005. Based on the findings, the researchers calculated that MRSA was striking 31 out of every 100,000 Americans, which translates into 94,360 cases and 18,650 deaths nationwide. In comparison, the AIDS virus killed about 12,500 Americans in 2005.
“This indicates these life-threatening MRSA infections are much more common than we had thought,” Dr. Fridkin said.
In fact, the estimates make MRSA much more common than flesh-eating strep infections, bacterial pneumonia and meningitis combined, Dr. Bancroft noted.
“These are some of the most dreaded invasive bacterial diseases out there,” Dr. Bancroft said. “This is clearly a very big deal.”
Clearly, it is. Why do I feel a little vindicated? Anyway, for all of us who work so hard behind the scenes, doing our best to help people who have been part of the sweeping under the rug, it is vindication. There is a problem, a huge and growing problem, and maybe, JUST MAYBE, the country will begin to pay attention to it now. It makes me so sad to know (and have personal knowledge of so many of them myself) all of these people who have died, whose children have died, who have lost their livelihood and joie d’vivre to MRSA. And it makes me more and more thankful to still have my beloved husband here with me.
If you are new to my MRSA websites, you have found MRSA Notes, the news site, you might want to check out MRSA Resources - we have a forum, and if you look around, there is a blazing hot community of people talking in the comments of almost every section on the site. My husbands MRSA story is at MRSAStory.com, and the Superbug Wiki is available too - please feel free to participate in that community project and help others find what they are looking for. And welcome, and best wishes for good health to you all!
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32 responses so far ↓
Mourningdove // Oct 18, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I’ve been reading your site since I got a hot infection last winter. YES, MRSA is a really big deal and I am so glad the media and finally picked up on it!! Thanks for your excellent site!
Christina Jones // Oct 18, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Thank YOU for the kind words. I hope your infection is long gone and you are staying nice and healthy!
Irene5731 // Oct 18, 2007 at 5:40 pm
It’s about time the mainstream media started talking about this huge problem. It has also been in our local paper three times in the last month. Word is finally getting out and people NEED to take this seriously.
Christina Jones // Oct 18, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Amen, Irene - thanks so much for the comment, and take good care of yourself.
julian clemmons // Oct 18, 2007 at 6:52 pm
my little girl is in critical condition in tennessee needs prayers & faith .she has mrsa and we are trying to get it to the mainstream media
Christina Jones // Oct 18, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Oh Julian - our prayers are all with you. If its any consolation, my husband pulled through from critical condition - and is doing just fine today. Stay positive and strong and pray a lot!
KellyRose // Oct 18, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Hi my name is KellyRose and i go to a high school in Upstate New York. Mrsa has recentle been on the news and scares the heck out of me so i googled this deadly sickness. Thank you so much for creating this site because no one seemed to exsplain mrsa the right way for me. I will wash my hands between all of my classes now and i will tell my school to let out a warning in our newspaper, if possible. Thank you so much yet again. My prayers are with you Julian
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andie // Nov 1, 2007 at 4:48 pm
i am thrilled to have found this website, as i have been doing a lot of research on mrsa since my dog was diagnosed in july. there is precious little trustworthy info out there, but since t has been in the news somuch, maybe with the help of websites like this that will change. i wish the word woud get out that our petsa can get this too.
Linda // Nov 6, 2007 at 4:20 pm
What or how do I clean a mattress after a patient has slept on it with MRSA and VRE?
Felicia // Nov 8, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I have been wandering if there was such a website for MRSA and I found this one. I am so glad and relieved that there is information available other than the news ect. I have 1 question, do you ever get over this or will this be a reoccurring illnes for the rest of my life?
carol dimascio // Dec 2, 2007 at 1:04 pm
My dad has mersa. Please talk about patient with hip or knee replacements. He has had mersa for a few years. The infections harbours in those parts. He has had 12 surgeries, and it still flares up. We almost lost him the first time. He is 79 and still fighting it.
Medifix // Jan 1, 2008 at 12:26 pm
We have seen a child die with resistant strain of staphylococcus in 1989. Since then we have been warning medical device manufacturers to change certain practical procedures which has be contributed to this epidemic. Please visit our website and check out our videos in you tube. Our mission is to let you know what can go wrong in hospitals and explain how infection can enter your body. Medifix
MRSA: How, Why & What Happend // Jan 1, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Video demonstrate how Staphylococcus aureus was given an opportunity to spread in hospitals. How you can prevent getting infected and protect yourself if you are treated in a hospital. Our mission is to educate you and make sure we stop spreading MRSA. Please leave your comment.
Marla // Feb 5, 2008 at 8:45 pm
If the so-called “infrastructure upgrade” in Fresno, CA is an example of how it is being carried out across the nation, it is likely the cause behind nationwide staph (MRSA) infections.
Sewage discharges as lines are being illegally altered and haphazardly clamped back together. Damages and reconstruction to connecting properties, leaving a city setting on top of clamped lines. Floors drilled out in order to alter sewer/water lines, which property owners are not informed of. This is also how mold lawsuits and insurance claims are carried out - simply loosening the clamps. Residents lied to as they are infected with raw sewage discharges. Keep in mind that various pathogens from raw sewage, including deadly MRSA, are airborne - imagine what is seeping through these clamped lines and into our homes. City of Fresno refuses to address the issue with more than lies, threats, name-calling - going as far as committing perjury to discredit their own records, which verify exactly what is taking place. The trail of lung/illness, infections, death speaks for itself.
Srivatsa // Feb 6, 2008 at 3:58 am
Marlas seem to think the bacteria is airborne and sewage discharge is bad. Unfortunately, some people have been spreading information that is not facts. You may get open wound, cuts, or dry eczema skin infected from this bugs by contact. Sewage water is said to contain Bacteriophages that kill Staphylococcus (including MRSA). These are viruses that attack bacteria. Check out a video, I published in my website (safecannula.com), you will be surprised.
Marla // Feb 6, 2008 at 5:01 am
srivata, please, please do not imply that sewage is not contaminated with deadly bacteria. Check out http://www.deadlydeceit.com or http://www.thewatchers.us
As for airborne MRSA: http://airborneinfection.blogspot.com/2006/03/skinny-on-airborne-mrsa.html or read about the monitors being developed for the sole purpose of detecting airborne MRSA in hospitals. Here is an article stating that disinfecting schools won’t stop MRSA. It is everywhere and we need to be aware of it. Nothing could be filthier or deadlier than sewage or sludge - please look at those 2 web sites.
Jim Bynum // Feb 6, 2008 at 11:39 am
Srivatsa seems to be a little confused about airborne bacteria, MRSA in the community and bacteriophages in sewage. Necrotizing MRSA is in sewage and will become airborne in water drops or on dust. According to insurance research there were over 368,000 hospitalized MRSA patients in 2005. That is almost 4 times what was reported in the study. It would be interesting to know who told Srivatsa viral bacteriophages kill staphylococcus or any of the other 76+ hydrogen sulfide producing bacteria that produce infections similar to MRSA since Staphylococcus is one of the primary bacteria use to remove nitrates and phosphate from sewage. Antibiotic resistant genes are being tranfered between bacteria in sewage treatment plants and released into the environment in sewage effluent, reclaimed water and sludge biosolids.
Srivatsa // Feb 7, 2008 at 4:23 am
Thanks to Jim for his comment. I agree Staphylococcus can be air born with water drops or dust but is not the main mode like some virus. I did visit your website to get educated about what you say.
Bacteriophage is well known in medicine for years. You can watch a video published in my website http://www.safecannula.com (Bacteriphage).
Ganges water in India is said to be very contaminated (industrial waste & half burnt human dead bodies) and is colonized with bacteriophage. The reason this water can be preserved at home for years without turning turbid. Hindu (Indian) custom is to make a dying man drink Ganges water & smear it all over the body. The reason cadaver don’t produce bad odor is because the bacteriophage kills bacteria present in the GUT and skin.
Jim Bynum // Feb 7, 2008 at 11:28 am
Assuming that bacteriophages will kill bacteria is sewage is a sure path to disaster. Even chlorine only stresses bacteria — when they recover most are antibiotic resistant including the black plague. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=240314&blobtype=pdf
“In the 19th century cholera became the world’s first truly global disease in a series of epidemics that proved to be a watershed for the history of plumbing. Festering along the Ganges River in India for centuries, the disease broke out in Calcutta in 1817 with grand - scale results.
India’s traditional, great Kumbh festival at Hardwar in the Upper Ganges triggered the outbreak. The festival lasts three months, drawing pilgrims from all over the country. Those from the Lower Bengal brought the disease with them as they shared the polluted water of the Ganges and the open, crowded camps on its banks.
When the festival was over, they carried cholera back to their homes in other parts of India. There is no reliable evidence of how many Indians perished during that epidemic, but the British army counted 10,000 fatalities among its imperial troops. Based on those numbers,, it’s almost certain that at least hundreds of thousands of natives must have fallen victim across that vast land.
When the festival ended, cholera raged along the trade routes to Iran, Baku and Astrakhan and up the Volga into Russia, where merchants gathered for the great autumn fair in Nijni-Novgorod. When the merchants went back to their homes in inner Russia and Europe, the disease went along with them”
http://www.theplumber.com/plague.html
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Joy Babb // Mar 21, 2008 at 11:05 am
I am a thirty year old victim of Mrsa… My first Craniotomy was the day before new years of ‘03. Just over two years later I had cranioplasty to remove a staph infection that had eaten a portion of my skull about the size of a dollar coin. They removed the skull “sanitized” it and replace the bone. Just over a year later- this past October, I had my third surgery. A kind of combination of the two surgeried. Not severe enough to be a craniotomy not superficial enough to be a cranioplasy. I now have had to have a two inch in diameter piece of my skull removed being that the staph was Mrsa and it ate the top of my skull.
Seven or eight weeks of vancomyacin I.V. antibiotic leaving a great scar on my arm for my strapless wedding dress. The spot of my latest surgery has healed but there is a curious spot that I am waiting to see the doctor for. Now, did I get this infection upon my first or second surgery? Am I financially responsible for the two surgeries that ensued prior to the contraction of this infection? And why can I not get any help and have to continue to work full time in order to live. I am just so physically tired and emotionally wrecked worrying about having another BRAIN SURGERY. I have a large dent in my head. And quite frankly, I have had enough. I just don’t know what to do and I am worried the infection may have returned. I just wanted to communicate with others that have possibly had similar experiences. Reply if you can. I have been deemed clear of infection, but I have been declared “cured” now three times, so, don’t know if that declaration means much.
Medifix // Mar 21, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Joy, your name tells it all, “Be happy” and you can fight any infection. When I worked as a junior doctor in Paediatric Oncology, I noticed happy kids where fighting their illness better.
This was later proved to be a fact by a Glasgow Pathologist 1980s, initially every one laughed but he won The Nobel Prize in 2002.
When you are happy, a protein which fights infections and cancer cells increases in your blood stream. This protein will kill bugs and cacer cells. This is “The Theory of Apoptosis” or commonly known as “Programmed Cell Death”.
I am working hard (since 1989) to prevent this infection spreading far and wide. Please watch my videos in YouTube (Medifix) and help me educate others about this dreadful bacteria.
zory rosa // May 14, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Hi everybody: I’m still suffering from mrsa in my sinus, even taking zavox doesn’t see to be working. I feel like I’m going to die soon, to finish of, I just got my forclusher of my home, because I’m been paying DR’s and getting pills for this terrible desease.Im depress.
de // May 15, 2009 at 1:31 am
this is what you are looking for.
Dr Kadiyali M Srivatsa // May 15, 2009 at 2:42 am
The comment above is inappropriate so I clicked on de, to let him/her know but took me to a website promoting some mineral water.
Please de don’t thriving on others discomfort, this infection is not simple. It can turn your life upside down. You need to thread carefully what you say.
Dr Kadiyali M Srivatsa // May 15, 2009 at 2:43 am
Children deaths from influenza are relatively uncommon. Between 2004 – 2007 child deaths from flu has been rising, and serious complications from bacterial infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are playing a much larger role. Children death was said to be due to a combination of influenza infection and bacterial pneumonia caused by MRSA. This has risen (five folds) sharply over the past five years. Almost all of that increase was due to S aureus: There were one staphylococcus infection in 2004-05, and 22 in 2006-07, and 64% of the staphylococcus infections were drug-resistant (MRSA).
The deaths were noted to be very rapid: 45% of the children died within 72 hours of their first symptoms and 75% died within a week.
MRSA is difficult to prevent because the bacterium lives on the skin and in the nostrils and causes disease unpredictably. However, this catastrophic complication cannot occur without also having the flu, so if we can prevent the flu, we could prevent MRSA pneumonia.
Ref: Finelli L, Fiore A, Dhara R, et al. Influenza-associated pediatric mortality in the United States: increase of Staphylococcus aureus coinfection. Paediatrics 2008;122:805-11
DE // May 15, 2009 at 5:33 am
Dr Kadiyali M Srivatsa, i quote you stating “this catastrophic complication cannot occur without also having the flu, so if we can prevent the flu, we could prevent MRSA pneumonia”. MMS eliminates flu, i do not need any to tell me this or nor do i need to read it, successfully on two occasions i have used this product and within 6 to 8 hours all main symptoms of flu have gone.
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Dr Kadiyali M Srivatsa // May 15, 2009 at 6:55 am
The quote is not from me, in children who developed seasonal flu in 2007 developed pneumonia, 64% of these children died because of MRSA pneumonia.
de // May 15, 2009 at 7:36 am
correction accepted.
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