MRSA Out of the Hospital

June 5th, 2007 by Rhoda

I like the inventions pouring onto the market designed to eliminate microbial infections in hospitals and other places where microbes concentrate. There is antimicrobial equipment for the sports field and they are even talking about putting antimicrobial turf on the football fields. For hospitals I am reading about antimicrobial clothing for patients and medical staff, flooring, and equipment. The most recent is SilvaGard, designed for preventing the spread of deadly medical device related infections like those often spread by catheters. All of these things and better housekeeping in general bode for safer hospital stays but will do little or nothing for what is already unleashed on the public in the form of CA MRSA. CA MRSA is now constantly evolving into new strains working its way to being the true Super Bug that cannot be beaten with current or even future antibiotics as it learns one by one to feed on what is designed to kill it becoming stronger and stronger. Even if there is never another case of the hospital acquired Super Bug, we will still have to deal with what is quickly spreading through the general population at an alarming rate. While we applaud all of the measures to stop MRSA inside of hospitals, we have to remember that the beast is already loosed and at our door.

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