Is anyone else annoyed at how the media has made MRSA seem like some new superbug when in fact its been around for years? I am tired of people panicing thinking this is some new bug that is going to kill off everyone on Earth. MRSA has been around for a VERY long time I think it was a slow media day when they ran the story. In fact 90,000 ppl a yr contract MRSA odds are your already a carrier and wont know unless your tested.
Whats your opinion
2007-11-01 04:28:24 · 12 answers · asked by texas_angel_wattitude 6 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Yes, I'm with you. People haven't paid any attention to it until the media covers it. MRSA has been around for years and just as dangerous then as it now, but no one knew it.
2007-11-01 14:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by cindy1323 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! It is very annoying to keep hearing about it. I wish people understood that the media is blowing a few cases in school waaaay out of proportion. It's okay to let people what's going on, and educate them on prevention. However, there is no need to scare them with it. What the media is neglecting to say is that MRSA has been around in hospitals and nursing homes for years. A person has a better chance of contracting it while being a patient in the hospital than a kid does just going to school everyday. Simple precautions are all people need to take - washing hands before eating and after going to the bathroom, cleaning and covering open wounds, not sharing towels, etc. MRSA was overly dramatized in the news.
2007-11-01 05:21:13 · answer #2 · answered by Angelia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The news is no longer about disseminating information. It is about ratings and ad revenues, and nothing sells like disaster...especially over-hyped disaster.
Events like 9/11 don't happen very often, so the media will take the event du jour and do what they can to turn it into a disaster. MRSA, Chinese toys, oil prices, even the most mundane news is urgent and threatening...including the weather. If it's raining outside, they get out the gutter cam and try to portray normal runoff as a torrent, worthy of gathering the animals and building an ark. In my part of the country they even give the snowstorms names like the weather service names hurricanes. Plus everything is "exclusive!" or "you heard it first on channel whatever!" Bullsh*t. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN...it's the same crap on every network. It amazes me that they can do this day after day with a straight face and no trace of shame or embarassment. What a bunch of clowns.
Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave.
2007-11-01 06:53:43 · answer #3 · answered by Bald Eagle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mrsa has been around since the 1960's. the main problem now is not that everyonce is scared to contract it is that it's in the schools. many kids have gotten mrsa. a few kids have died so parents are concerned. in my school district alone there's 4 known cases of mrsa. i don't think people should panic but i also don't think we should ignore it. mrsa is pennicilin and amoxicillin resistant meaning they don't work. there's only one known antibiotic that can cure it, clindamycin. what if you're allergic or better yet what happens when mrsa doesn't react to it anymore. yes it's a disease that's ben around but we shouldn't get mad or upset because people show concern when innocent children are getting it and it's all over the news.
2007-11-01 04:39:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is ridiculous, I had a spot on my leg that got infected (looked like a spider bite) and they told me I had MRSA, clearly now I did not have it because it went away in a few days, but the media had people so scared that people are dying from this stuff and it was all a bunch of crap!
2007-11-01 04:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by MJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clearly, lately it has been a quiet media run. So they had to come up with something to talk about. So they picked MRSA and talk ad-nauseum. Until the next cause du jour comes up....
2007-11-01 04:31:29 · answer #6 · answered by It's a secret 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes - it's the "disaster of the week". I'm sick and tired of the way the media sensationalize everything and the way people fall for it.
2007-11-01 07:46:29 · answer #7 · answered by Carol M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They run out of things to do or say. So they like to scare young new parents. It comes off like leopardse or something, right. Anything left untreated can be deadly.
2007-11-01 04:50:53 · answer #8 · answered by jegbabys 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a media scam to deflect attention away from Shrillary Klinton's various fundraising crimes.
2007-11-01 04:32:46 · answer #9 · answered by Slappy McStretchNuts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its call the AMERICAN media
the news are here to put fear on Average people especially those who really dont understand the system
2007-11-01 04:32:26 · answer #10 · answered by Scando Fonz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋