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Oct17
MRSA Superbug - Who should be scared? What to do?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, the superbug has attacked schools in Virginia...and the students are scared, their parents are scared...and the global warming scare has taken a back seat, if not then, just for a short period. Something else is attacking and the dangers are imminent.

Each year it is estimated that some 90,000 people - a crowded Rose Bowl full of people, get infected with the potentially deadly infection. Some 18,000+ (a Phoneix Sun's Arena full) die.

MRSA is often carried on the skin and in the noses of HEALTHY PEOPLE.

The disease spreads wildly through:

1. schools

2. hospitals

3. prisons

4. athletic facilitiessuperbug.jpg

MRSA does not respond to penicillin and related antibiotics.

Three students died from the disease in the past week from MRSA infection that can spread:

1. from skin-to-skin contact 

2. sharing an item from an infected person

3. touching an open wound

The best way to fight...to prevent the infection is o:

1. wash hands regulalry

2. keep cuts and abrasions clean

3. watch out for contaminated medical equipment

4. stay out of the hospital - a full one-fourth of invasive cases of staff infections happen to patients in hospitals and more than half are related to the healthcare industry.

5. let the kids have a say - schools in VA were closed after the students "there launched a protest Monday using text messages and social networking sites."

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Henrico County and Culpeper (VA) now report MRSA incidents and are going through the same hoopla of
acting as if they are doing something serious in response.

All the cleaning, washing, disinfecting is quite temporary and of very limited value. Better
than nothing, but not much better from a medical perspective.

Better solutions are in widespread use in Canada, in Singapore, in hotels through SE Asia, and in
hospitals, schools, universities, condos in USA and CA.

Yes, I am directly involved in that.

And as you might expect, knowing anything of Virginia politics and the "good old boy" way things are done in this state, in particular --- Henrico County officials and Culpeper officials, including all of their school board members, stand out uniquely as having eschewed any
communications, any meetings, anything period, to learn about what really works, as opposed to
what what some "good old John" has been doing for the last 100 years. It is truly quite sad, in
my opinion, when practical solutions are offered but simply ignored.

More info is at these sites: http://tetradgroup.com/healthysafe or

http://ecoasisnetwork.org/healthysafe

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