Superbug

Metals from antibacterial clay to help fight superbug MRSA

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:35:26 GMT

Source: www.aninews.in --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Washington, May 18 (ANI): Researchers have now turned towards clay - a naturally occurring substance recognized since antiquity for its medicinal properties - to kill a range of pathogens. ...

Family counts blessings after superbug scare

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:43:00 GMT

Source: www.stuff.co.nz --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
A young father-of-three is learning to walk again after a terrifying battle with the deadly flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis. ...

MUHC asks patient attendants to clean rooms in superbug fight

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:39:13 GMT

Source: www.montrealgazette.com --- Friday, May 17, 2013
The McGill University Health Centre is now requiring that patient attendants spend an hour a day scrubbing patient rooms - a task traditionally performed by housekeeping staff - to combat "very high rates" of C. difficile and other Superbug infections, The Gazette has learned. ...

Hospital Rush To Fight Superbug Infections

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:08:54 GMT

Source: www.redorbit.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Warnings about dangerous C Diff infections have been around for years, but now there's a new, even deadlier, super bug that's nearly impossible to treat. Monica Robins reveals the powerful germ and what hospitals and you can do to prevent it from spreading. ...

What's this so-called "sex superbug" everyone is talking about?

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:29:54 GMT

Source: seahorsebear.tumblr.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
think-progress : Forget the dire headlines that “it’s worse than AIDS.” Here’s everything you need to know. This nails it. I’m an infectious disease epidemiologist who studies sexually transmitted infections. The press typically FUBARs science and health reporting. A little while back some hysteric said “This is worse than AIDS.” It’s bad news, but it’s not. Gonorrhea, like many bacterial infections, has been evolving resistance to each new antibiotic we treat it with for decades now. We’re on the last one right now, and in just a couple of people, it’s resistant to pretty much everything. That’s bad. But it’s not the AIDS epidemic. Read on. ...

Everything You Need To Know About The So-Called ‘Sex Superbug’ Threatening The U.S.

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:00 GMT

Source: boyboxrebellion.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Everything You Need To Know About The So-Called ‘Sex Superbug’ Threatening The U.S. : At the beginning of this month, mainstream media outlets began to run dire headlines proclaiming the spread of an aggressive “sex Superbug,” quoting a doctor who claimed it could be “worse than AIDS.” The breathless proclamations of an impending public health crisis stemmed from a report — published by the Associated Press, among other outlets... ...

Everything You Need To Know About The So-Called 'Sex Superbug' Threatening The U.S. | ThinkProgress

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:50:00 GMT

Source: afterthebridge.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/15/2013151/everything-you-need-to-know-sex-Superbug/?mobile=wp Sent from my iPhone ...

1 in 12 Canadian adults in hospital have MRSA or another superbug, study finds

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:50:07 GMT

Source: www.canada.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
On any given day, about one in 12 adults in hospitals across Canada are either colonized or infected with a Superbug, the first national survey to determine the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant organisms has found. ...

HEALTH ALERT: New Gonorrhea Superbug ‘Worse Than AIDS’

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:00 GMT

Source: prophecydude.webnode.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
US Doctors have issued a public health warning over a new antibiotic-resistant form of the gonorrhea which they say has the deadly potential to be “worse than AIDS”. Speaking to CNBC recently, Mr Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine said “This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly.” “Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,”... ...

1 in 12 Canadian adults in hospital have superbug

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:04:52 GMT

Source: newsgroups.derkeiler.com --- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Summary: about one in 12 adults in hospitals across Canada ... are either colonized or infected with a Superbug, ... survey to determine the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant organisms ... ...

Diabetic patients at greater risk from superbug

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:28:32 GMT

Source: www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk --- Monday, May 13, 2013
New research published today in the Journal of Medical Microbiology highlights the danger posed to diabetic patients by the deadly Superbug Acinetobacter baumannii. ...

HEALTH ALERT: New Gonorrhoea Superbug ‘Worse Than AIDS’

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:32:11 GMT

Source: www.zimeye.org --- Monday, May 13, 2013
US Doctors have issued a public health warning over a new antibiotic-resistant form of the gonorrhoea which they say has the deadly potential to be “worse than AIDS”. Speaking to CNBC recently, Mr Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine said “This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly.” “Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,” Christianson said. “This is very dangerous.” Global Threat & Monitoring The UN’s World Health Organisation is urging governments and health-care practitioners to step up surveillance of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a bacterial infection that can cause inflammation, infertility, pregnancy complications and in extreme cases, lead to maternal death. Children born to mothers with gonorrhoea have a 50% chance of developing eye infections that can have blindness as a consequence. Although discovered in 2009, to date the new gonorrhoea Superbug, known as HO41, has not killed anyone or spread outside Japan. Action to curtail its global spread is imperative. In the United Kingdom, Health delivery experts continue to be concerned by the destructive nature of gonorrhoea which has become increasingly difficult to treat. It is believed that this strain may eventually become incurable in the next few years. England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Dav ...

Superbug 101: What it is, what to do

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:48:33 GMT

Source: www.wkyc.com --- Monday, May 13, 2013
New deadly class of super germs resistant to antibiotics. ...

One in 12 Canadian adults in hospital are infected with a superbug, study finds

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:43:22 GMT

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- Monday, May 13, 2013
On any given day, about one in 12 adults in hospitals across Canada are either colonized or infected with a Superbug, the first national survey to determine the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant organisms has found. ...

1 in 12 Canadian adults in hospital have a superbug: study

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:24:18 GMT

Source: www.citynews.ca --- Monday, May 13, 2013
On any given day, about one in 12 adults in hospitals across Canada are either colonized or infected with a Superbug, the first national survey to determine the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant organisms has found. The survey of 176 acute-care hospitals looked at rates of infection or colonization in patients from three bacterial microbes that have become immune to the killing effects of most or all antibiotics — MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), VRE (vancomycin-resistant Enterococci) and Clostridium difficile. “And that by itself is a substantial burden of disease,” said principal researcher Dr. Andrew Simor, head of infectious diseases at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. “About one in 12 adults … are going to have one of these three antibiotic-resistant organisms, and clearly the rate would be even higher if you started to add on other resistant organisms that we were not able to measure,” Simor added. Patients can carry, or be colonized by, a microbe like MRSA, but have no signs of active disease, while those who are infected are sick and have symptoms. (All patients with C. diff in the study were infected and had diarrhea and other symptoms.) However, those who carry a bug can go on to become infected. For example, from one-quarter to one-third of patients colonized with MRSA become infected with the Superbug, which can attack the skin and soft tissue, cause a form of pneumonia or invade the b ...

One in 12 hospital patients carries antibiotic-resistant 'superbug'

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:08:00 GMT

Source: www.ctvnews.ca --- Monday, May 13, 2013
More than 2,890 hospital patients in Canada are infected with a so-called “Superbug,” or an antibiotic-resistant organism, at any one time, according to new Canadian research, which also found that most infections were acquired in a health-care facility. ...

‘Sex Superbug’: ‘Drug-Resistant Strain Of Gonorrhea’ Found In U.S.

Mon, 13 May 2013 03:04:56 GMT

Source: blackdoctor.org --- Sunday, May 12, 2013
The impact of an antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea could match that of HIV/AIDS, according to some experts. The strain, called HO41, has been placed in the Superbug category along with other antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), CNBC reported. LIKE BlackDoctor.org on Facebook! Get Your Daily Medicine…For LIFE! No deaths from HO41 gonorrhea have been reported, but this is “an emergency situation” and “it’s getting more hazardous” as time passes, according to William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. “This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly,” Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine. “Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,” he explained. “This is very dangerous.” The new gonorrhea strain, has been found in Hawaii, California and Norway. Worldwide, nearly 30 million people have died from AIDS. Christianson believes the effect of the gonorrhea bacteria is more direct. ...

Seven deaths at north Cumbria hospitals linked to superbug

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:53:32 GMT

Source: www.cumberlandnews.co.uk --- Sunday, May 12, 2013
Seven deaths at north Cumbria’s two hospitals were linked to Superbug C.difficile and there has been a three-fold rise in “major or catastrophic impact” incidents. ...

Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' May Spread Among Patients, Study Finds news

Sat, 11 May 2013 06:45:07 GMT

Source: www.healingwell.com --- Friday, May 10, 2013
People with cystic fibrosis are of special concern ...

'Sex Superbug' Worse than AIDS Hits Hawaii

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:34:00 GMT

Source: newsofthefree.blogspot.com --- Friday, May 10, 2013
A new deadly “sex Superbug” has been found in two individuals in Hawaii, after surfacing in Japan in 2011. H041, a form of gonorrhea that is resistant to all antibiotics presently available, is considered as deadly as AIDS, and is much faster at killing people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants upward of $50 million from Congress to find an antibiotic that will kill the virus, which has also been found in California and Norway. 'Sex Superbug' Worse than AIDS Hits Hawaii ...