What do you know about this? They say spreading? Starts as a skin boil, etc..skin infection from a cut? To whole body within 24 hrs with holes in lungs?
2007-10-16 12:50:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
CNN just talked about it?
2007-10-16 12:58:12 · update #1
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/10/16/mrsa.cdc.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
2007-10-16 13:04:03 · update #2
The hospital superbug MRSA can turn into a flesh-eating killer, researchers have revealed.
A study found an 'alarming' number of cases of MRSA causing necrotising fasciitis, a condition that destroys skin and muscle and can lead to lost limbs or death.
2007-10-16 13:08:38 · update #3
MRSA, in layman's terms, is a staph infection that causes painful boils on and in the skin. MRSA infection is quite common, contracted in hospitals, gyms, prisons, public AND residential restrooms--especially poorly maintained ones. Area sanitation practices in such places and at home should be a top priority ASAP. Take caution in these places, careful to avoid skin exposure if possible.
Another top priority for us all to follow is strict effective personal hygiene (baths, showers and hand washing); nothing excessive--simply practice awareness of your current surroundings and use a measure of common sense. Doubled efforts of janitorial services and home sanitation practices by EVERYONE can go a long way towards reducing the occurrence of MRSA and keep its levels of existence down.
Left to breed and mutate, there are dangerous flesh eating variants of MRSA that have the concern of the CDC--and it is hoped major laboratory funding towards effective fighting of MRSA will be forthcoming.
2007-10-16 18:17:56 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MRSA is a condition that can be very dangerous especially with sick people...
some people actually are carriers of these bacteria and they dont actually know it....
this condition makes people with disease more susceptible to get and develop further conditions.. so if someone was proven to have this they are put in quarantine to avoid the spread of it.
this bacteria are commonly hidden on groins and nose
2007-10-16 13:01:29 · answer #2 · answered by RuS3L 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MRSA and flesh eating bacteria are different diseases, which are you asking about? The description you give doesn't fit either one.
2007-10-16 13:00:09 · answer #3 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where are you getting your info? I'm sorry you are just wrong.
2007-10-16 12:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋