CDC: Drug-resistant staph deaths may surpass AIDS toll

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/10/16/mrsa.cdc.ap/index.html

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" CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can be carried by healthy people, living on the skin or in their noses. Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. The report shows just how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting. The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That's an "astounding" figure, said an editorial in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, which published the study. "

[Edited on October 16, 2007 at 5:36 PM. Reason : ]

10/16/2007 5:36:04 PM

you first

10/16/2007 5:38:13 PM

we all are going to die!

10/16/2007 5:38:30 PM

who wants to live forever anyways

10/16/2007 5:38:56 PM

10/16/2007 5:42:25 PM

10/16/2007 5:43:37 PM

that's nothing, did you hear the sun's going to blow up?

10/16/2007 5:46:16 PM

bttt

10/18/2007 10:11:46 AM

no, INGMSR, you are going to die

10/18/2007 10:30:02 AM

i'm scared!

10/18/2007 10:32:10 AM

School Closings due to MRSA superbug

http://new.wset.com/news/stories/1007/464412.html

10/18/2007 10:43:58 AM

if I get sick, I'm going to drive to raleigh and cough on each and every one of you

10/18/2007 10:48:30 AM