We need to be more cautious than ever before… these are perilous days in which the spread of the superbug, MRSA ( Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is running rampart.

It used to be an infectious bug that could only be caught in a hospital. But today, as the bug has became more and more resistant to antibiotics commonly used to kill it, MRSA is found all over the place. No longer is it confined to hospitals. Doctors are reporting that they are finding MRSA on a daily basis in their practices. It is now airborne and if not caught early, can be one of the toughest infections to overcome even with the most aggressive treatment.

I have a friend who was in and out of death for several days in the ICU at our local hospital as doctors fought tirelessly with every means of the most aggressive treatment available today to kill this superbug. He made it finally, but not before his heart, lungs, kidneys eyes and various other organs were affected. That was almost a year ago and he is still recovering from several things that are not yet healed.

Many hospitals starting with the VA hospitals are testing their patients now
when they are admitted and also when they are discharged in order to squelch the spread of this increasingly prevalent drug-resistant bug.

Doctors and nurses now take special precautions when treating patients with a known MRSA infection. For example, they wear gowns, masks and disposable gloves. However, symptom-free hospital workers and staff can be carriers of this deadly bug, either through their clothing, bed rails, blood pressure cuffs, stethoscopes, computer keyboards—and mostly by their unclean hands.

Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands have been identifying, isolating and treating MRSA carriers as standard procedure. These countries have managed to suppress the spread of MRSA almost entirely. And now other countries are following suit. Philadelphia’ VA hospital, being one of the first in the US to carry out this policy has had great success in it’s endeavor to curb the spread of MRSA.

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