Link: Tough New Superbug Spreading Openly Across US And Now Canada.
Clones of the antibiotic-resistant MRSA superbug which has infected a number of professional football and baseball athletes as well as children in day care centres in the US is set to take Canada by force.
This warning was issued in a pubic health commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal yesterday.
Officials from various health institutions in Canada, including the Department of Infectious Diseases, and the The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, say they do not wish to alarm the public, and that by following some simple hygiene procedures the epidemic can be minimised. However, while the public’s attention is on the threat of a flu pandemic, a new MRSA mutant is quietly spreading outside of public awareness.
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The starting point is to focus on why infection rates are so high in hospitals. Inadequate hand hygiene.
In a patient room all surfaces, uniforms of nurses and doctors, bed linens, medical instruments, appliances (telephone and TV controller) clothing of visitors, are covered with pathogens (pathogen lifetime up to months). Also the patient has infectious pathogens. These pathogens invariably and consistently get on the gloved hand of the nurse or doctor and compromise its state of sanitation.These pathogens are transferred to the patient each time the patient is touched by the nurse or doctor.
If you want to cut down on pathogen transmission in hospitals, restaurants, schools, focus on what the transmission vector is. The gloves worn by workers.
If you instantly sanitize the surface of the
glove EACH time a nurse is about to touch a patient, or money is handled by a restaurant
worker donning gloves, you will resolve, MRSA, c diff, acinetobacter causing deadly
infections.
We believe PURE Bioscience (OTC’bb’: PURE) is on the verge of disrupting the conventional wisdom on how to treat MRSA and similar pathogens. Also; note (specific to this report) they recently tested their SDC product both at a high school and jail in Tulsa Oklahoma, and essentially eradicated new incidences of resistance MRSA infections.
Not just my opinion; as this was documented by both the primary Tulsa newspaper and local Network TV station; but for reasons beyond my understanding, have not received National coverage (at least not as of yet). Why does this, as an MRSA website, not focus increasingly on these kind of least-toxic antimicrobial / anti-pathogenic products?
regards (and a stockholder, though in full disclosure I wouldn’t be if not impressed by their initial offerings,
gene inger
(financial TV pioneer and commentator for over 30 years)
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