Let's list them:
Satanists
Razorblades in apples
Molestation at day care centers
Role-Playing games
Assault Weapons
and now:
Staph fatalities may exceed AIDS deaths
CHICAGO - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. Tuesdays report shows just how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting.
And then the fun w/ numbers to justify their fear inducing headline:
There were 988 reported deaths among infected people in the study, for a rate of 6.3 per 100,000. That would translate to 18,650 deaths annually, although the researchers don't know if MRSA was the cause in all cases.
If these deaths all were related to staph infections, the total would exceed other better-known causes of death including AIDS — which killed an estimated 17,011 Americans in 2005 — said Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft of the Los Angeles County Health Department, the editorial author.
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MRSA is a going to be very real problem if we ever run out of antibiotics.
According to my professor, we still have a couple of restricted antibiotics in supply, these won't be cleared for medical application for a long time to prevent the cocci from developing resistance to these as well. More antibiotics are constantly being produced.
Meanwhile, some hospitals are starting to apply the "fighting fire with fire" principle by adding benign bacteria to cleaning agents, flooding the hospitals with them, preventing SA from gaining a foothold outside of a host body.
The more you know!
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