This germ is freaking scary. Urban horror has nothing on this.

[gategrrl]

 MRSA staph germ worse than AIDS virus in number of deaths. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.

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[amycooper.livejournal.com]

I would want to know more before jumping to conclusions. If there was an epidemic to that kind of proportions, I think it would have hit the news long before now. I'm gonna hunt down that issue of JAMA and read that first. I generally trust NPR, but this seems absurd in its numbers.

Currently NYS (where I live) does have some out breaks of bacteria-resistant staph infections. Staph infections are somewhat common and the non-drug resistant are pretty treatable. Generally the bacteria-resistant are not lethal, though they is a higher risk of fatality to them.

Also, it isn't an easily spreadable disease.

While drug resistant strains for bacteria is a growing problem and this is alarming in that sense, this sounds wrong to me. As I said, I'm going to hunt down that issue of JAMA now.

[szeretni.livejournal.com]

I've heard about this, or at least something similar and it's really scary.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

This is scary. My daughter got a notice under her dorm room door the other day that there's an epidemic of this at her school. I've been reading up about it because of that, and, yeah, it's pretty scary.

What I read in other news articles is that they are discovering these staph infections in places where you wouldn't expect it--in healthy children or even under the skin where it's not visible, so doctors don't always know what they're treating.