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Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals

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Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals - BBC News

Superbugs resistant to emergency antibiotics are spreading in hospitals, a Europe-wide study shows.

Drugs called carbapenems are used when an infection cannot be treated with anything else.
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The spread of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was "extremely concerning", researchers said. And they warned other bugs could become resistant too - because of the unique way bacteria have sex.

'Two bacteria can meet up and have bacterial sex - called conjugation - and a short string of genetic information, called a plasmid, is shared between them. And the study found the instructions that give K. pneumoniae carbapenem resistance written on to plasmids.'

Most of the spread of this disease is happening in hospitals - from Ireland to Israel.
 
Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals - BBC News

Superbugs resistant to emergency antibiotics are spreading in hospitals, a Europe-wide study shows.

Drugs called carbapenems are used when an infection cannot be treated with anything else.
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The spread of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was "extremely concerning", researchers said. And they warned other bugs could become resistant too - because of the unique way bacteria have sex.

'Two bacteria can meet up and have bacterial sex - called conjugation - and a short string of genetic information, called a plasmid, is shared between them. And the study found the instructions that give K. pneumoniae carbapenem resistance written on to plasmids.'

Most of the spread of this disease is happening in hospitals - from Ireland to Israel.

Avoid hospitals if possible. Anyone going into a hospital for an invasive procedure is extremely susceptible to MRSA right now, and to VRSA which is even worse. I know from experience when my husband had surgery and left the hospital and three days later had a temperature of 105. Yes, really. ... 105! He spent 3 months in and out of the hospital being diagnosed with tests and treated with Vancomycin, then came home and spent another two months attached to an IV pump at home thatI had to set up and maintain for him every day. Check out your hospitals infection rates, they are all posted online by each state. Choose a hospital based on their infection rates. Hopefully, we'll never see this new super bug here in the U.S. but if we do, it's going to take a lot of lives unless someone comes up with a new antibiotic to treat it.
 
Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals - BBC News

Superbugs resistant to emergency antibiotics are spreading in hospitals, a Europe-wide study shows.

Drugs called carbapenems are used when an infection cannot be treated with anything else.
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The spread of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was "extremely concerning", researchers said. And they warned other bugs could become resistant too - because of the unique way bacteria have sex.

'Two bacteria can meet up and have bacterial sex - called conjugation - and a short string of genetic information, called a plasmid, is shared between them. And the study found the instructions that give K. pneumoniae carbapenem resistance written on to plasmids.'

Most of the spread of this disease is happening in hospitals - from Ireland to Israel.

I heard it might spread to Iran to Iceland and then Indonesia.
 
As a PSA, invasive dental procedures are risky too. I'm a survivor of a necrotizing "MRSA" (fasciitis is the strep version; cellulitis is the stap version, with the strep version being more deadly) in 2005, and once you've had this, you're vulnerable for the rest of your life because the cooties don't ever leave; they just lurk, waiting for another opportunity. I have to have Vancomycin beginning at least 24 hours before any procedure, and even the site of the IV is an area of attack.

When one of my local hospitals finally did a self-study, every area of the hospital was just fine save one. Those curtains that provide privacy in the ER? Loaded with the cooties. Now the hospital has a new ER with individual rooms and sliding glass doors you don't have to touch.

If you have even the tiniest scratch anywhere and it becomes red and hot, go to the ER instantly. Don't wait. A MRSA can kill you in 24 hours.
 
As a PSA, invasive dental procedures are risky too. I'm a survivor of a necrotizing "MRSA" (fasciitis is the strep version; cellulitis is the stap version, with the strep version being more deadly) in 2005, and once you've had this, you're vulnerable for the rest of your life because the cooties don't ever leave; they just lurk, waiting for another opportunity. I have to have Vancomycin beginning at least 24 hours before any procedure, and even the site of the IV is an area of attack.

When one of my local hospitals finally did a self-study, every area of the hospital was just fine save one. Those curtains that provide privacy in the ER? Loaded with the cooties. Now the hospital has a new ER with individual rooms and sliding glass doors you don't have to touch.

If you have even the tiniest scratch anywhere and it becomes red and hot, go to the ER instantly. Don't wait. A MRSA can kill you in 24 hours.

Getting your nose swabbed for MRSA is standard procedure in hospitals now. I went in for same-day prostate surgery (a TURP) & had my nasal passages swabbed. No MRSA but prostate surgery is no walk in the park.
 
Getting your nose swabbed for MRSA is standard procedure in hospitals now. I went in for same-day prostate surgery (a TURP) & had my nasal passages swabbed. No MRSA but prostate surgery is no walk in the park.

No, it isn't. So glad it's behind you now!
 
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