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| Originally Posted by Not Now John But staph has been around for a long time before MRSA, and MRSA is merely a strain of staph that is treatable with unconventional antibiotics. My cousin died of a staph infection in the late 70s, before all this talk of MRSA. Today it is rare, because it is often treated. Well, not that rare apparently because many people go untreated for lack of an understanding of what it can do. |
Unfortunately MRSA is very common in the UK and it has been known to kill folk who have been recuperating in hospital after having an operation. Its at the point now where its not the operation you have to worry about, but the aftercare. Even today there was a big piece on the news about how some hospital down south (England) had the worst (MRSA) record in the UK. They have various theories about how it is being passed on such as doctors and nurses not washing their hands in between seeing various patients, or visitors sitting on beds, or lack of hospital hygiene or nurses not changing out of their uniforms after doing a shift. Here's another one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/7049853.stm