Wednesday, May 20, 2009

MRSA

More intense than the swine flu is the MRSA superbug. The bacteria is resistant to ordinary antibiotics, there is a level of super antibiotics that reach it though.

The bacteria is also far more lethal than swine flu.

Many years ago, a friend in the medical profession told us about how the overuse of antibiotics leads to the transmutation of bacteria into being antibiotic resistant. Eventually he said it would reach the community, it has been in the hospital environment for a while.

Reuters via Yahoo: Deadly pneumonia caused by super-bugs on rise: study
Deadly pneumonia caused by so-called superbugs are spreading outside hospitals and represent a growing threat to the public...

...the "super-bug" pneumonia most commonly appears following an influenza-like illness...

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