Flu Merging With Pneumonia and MRSA Pneumonia Present Deadly Threat

Hospitals are filled to capacity all over the country! These are just the types of conditions medical experts have been warning us about with respect to the Bird Flu outbreaks occurring all over the globe. It seems the flu pandemic, Bird or otherwise, is already here!

Illinois: "The flu season has really hit the Tri-States hard. You may remember, we told you a couple of weeks ago that 75 percent of patients who went to the walk-in clinic at Quincy Medical Group were diagnosed with the flu. I found out just how bad the flu is affecting area hospitals. We've heard reports the flu has hit some hospitals so hard that flu patients have filled up most hospital beds...35 percent of the patients admitted are in for respiratory problems."

Texas:"The hospital reached full capacity Tuesday afternoon, and for the first time in its history, some patient transfers were turned away. The hospital was not accepting adult transfer patients from regional hospitals and direct transfer patients from physicians."


Florida:"Four emergency rooms recently had to turn patients away in Marion County. Meanwhile, Osceola Regional Medical Center said its ER has seen at least 60 more people at day come through its doors in the past few days, which is too many for the hospital to handle alone."


In a too little, too late effort the CDC is recommending that all children be vaccinated against the flu in the future. Why the certain concern? No one is saying outright what's happening but our constant observation of the news is leading us to believe that it's the secondary infections related to flu that are the real concern, specifically a new and very deadly phenomenon: MRSA Pneumonia.

Recently two deaths of young men have occurred in the Pacific Northwest prompting a warning from officials which may well turn out to be the flu shot heard round the world: "MRSA pneumonia, a relatively new infection that wasn't on national health officials' radar until about five years ago, is rare, but it may also be on the increase, health officials say."

The now well known community acquired, skin contact version of MRSA is dangerous enough but a deadly, anti-biotic resistant form of bacteria being coughed from the lungs has even more potential to be pandemic. Coughing, of course, creates an aerosol of deadly little bugs that spread much wider than skin contact.

Health officials must be frightened by what they are seeing this flu season: young, healthy people unable to fight off the flu. Hopefully, the actions they are taking are not too late, but the overuse of antibiotics in the past may have already sown the seeds of a deadly phenomenon.

What can you do to protect yourself? Do everything you can to remain healthy, the basic things like good food and lots of clean water. We highly recommend that if you are sick stay home from whatever you think needs tending. Wash your hands...such a simple solution to so much suffering.

Links:

• Is MRSA really your worst enemy?
• CDC MRSA Pneumonia
• CDC Dealing With Drug Resistant Bugs
• Easy Ways to Stay Healthy
  

Is MRSA Really Your Worst Enemy?

It is impossible to run from bacteria, much less hide! For this reason, the human family hasn't had it good against bacteria for a very long time. If it hadn't been for providence, luck or the grace of God we'd still be dropping dead in droves from common infections.

Modern antibiotics have been around for a relatively short time in human history. The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming occurred in 1928; he observed a mold which had grown by chance on a staphylococcus culture. The mold had surprisingly constructed a bacteria free zone around itself. The Scottish born researcher had stumbled upon a substance which would lengthen countless lives, especially after mass-production was refined during World War II. By the time the human devastation of D-Day was happening, thousands were being saved from once deadly gangrene with penicillin. Deadly and frightening diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis and syphilis became curable and surgery became a safe endeavor. To hear of someone today, dying of bacterial pneumonia would be shocking to us; but, it is happening. It is now widely known that once treatable diseases are becoming resistant to the miracle drugs of the past.

Antibiotic resistance first began to emerge not long after the drugs were put into wide use. It was in the 1950s that a form of staphylococcus know as S Aureus 80/81 was discovered in hospital maternity wards all over the world. Attempts were made to limit the use of antibiotics as researchers began to realize that bacteria had the ability to evolve immunity to antibiotics.

So what can we expect? Until a new silver bullet is discovered to fight the "superbugs", once thought of as eradicated afflictions will kill healthy people. Sadly, the recent death of a healthy 17 year old Virginia boy has slapped us in the face with that truth. We will see things like c. difficile, pneumonia and staph take people down in droves as they once did before the era of antibiotics was born.

A story ran recently on CNN that MRSA had been discovered in other Virginia schools. Well of course it had! No matter how many times schools are cleaned, hospitals are sanitized or hands are washed the bugs will survive. They will continue to fight for survival by acquiring resistance to any new drug that emerges and hide from our feeble attempts to flush them out with anti-bacterial soaps, bleach based cleaners or alcohol hand scrubs. Bacteria survive in the most hostile of earthly environments and they may well survive us.

In bygone days our leaders once comforted us with phrases like, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"; yet today the newscasts we watch and the political pronouncements we hear are seething with hopelessness and chastising warnings that our imminent death is coming sooner than we think unless we take the recommended precautions. If you think that you can run from MRSA, forget it. So what must you do? Stand and fight! Fight bravely each and every day and never give up hope that peace is available to you. Fear really is your worst enemy and to spend your precious and limited time on this earth being frightened of bacteria is an insult to your soul, the ultimate in vanity, perhaps downright blasphemy.

Face your fear; distraction is no true escape. You won't stop panicking while watching a America's Funniest Home Videos, especially if you don't flip during the commercials. Look at your fear through a microscope and try to understand what your fear really represents. To know your enemy intimately is to know how to destroy him whether he is MRSA, a heart attack, or an earthquake.

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Could MRSA Become the Black Death of the 21st Century?

An epidemic is quietly growing on the skin of otherwise healthy people and showing up daily in the back pages of local newspapers all over the Globe. The bug MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) was once confined to hospitals but has crept into the community and is striking frequently in settings like football locker rooms.

In a recent, frightening case in the from Virginia, a healthy 26 year old man became ill with what he thought was the flu. Within four days of showing symptoms the man was on the verge of death. Upon admission to the hospital he had eight heart attacks within four hours. The infection damaged a heart valve which led to a stroke leaving him partially paralyzed and both of his legs were later amputated .

On our front page we linked to a story of a high school football player from Grove City, OH who was hospitalized with a "mystery illness". He had originally been infected with MRSA on his foot. The mystery illness was a complication of the original infection and became so severe that doctors induced a coma in order to try to save the boy. As a precaution the school's locker room was disinfected.

MRSA is a bacteria that has gradually become more and more resistant to penicillin. It is often found in the nostrils but can colonize elsewhere both inside and outside the human body. Often boils or abscesses form which must be lanced or drained in order to be treated. MRSA is called a superbug and is becoming more and more prevalent in the community. We suggest you keep your eye on this quietly emerging pandemic of a bug that is becoming increasingly difficult to treat with antibiotics.