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The Staph Infection Superbug - MSRA

If this is Monday, the media must be touting some new threat we should all be in a panic about. Frankly, we've grown numb to the threats, which is bad news since we should all be paying close attention to the threat of MSRA.

MSRA is a form of staph infection that has evolved in a way that is very scary. Often referred to as Mursa, it is proving to be resistent to all of the antibiotics we have traditionally used to treat staph infection problems.

Warnings have been issued for years that the medical profession was over prescribing antibiotics. So what? Well, the concern was the fact that bacteria mutate repeatedly, which led to the concern that one would evolve a resistant to the usual treatments.

Staph infection can kill. So, what happens once a version of it becomes untreatable with antibiotics? A disaster of biblical proportions. Tens of millions or more could literally be wiped out.

The scary news is MSRA appears to potentially be such a bacteria or at least the precursor to one. The bug has proven to be very resistant to our most useful antibiotics including penicillin, methicillin, and cephalosporins.

It is unclear if MSRA is the superbug that has long been feared because mortality rates are difficult to establish. Many parts of the world are unfamiliar with the bug and thus fail to diagnose it as such, often attributing deaths to incorrect causes.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association determined MSRA to be the cause of over 18,600 deaths in the USA in 2005. To give you a point of reference, this number is more than the total deaths caused by AIDS in the country for the same period.

The good news with the bug is it has shown an odd trend. Although the media has glommed onto an outbreak in a public school, it is found more commonly in hospitals, gyms and nursing homes. Not airports. Not public areas.

Staph infection is, in fact, a very common bug in the world. Billions of us carry it on our skin. MSRA is a vicious version of it, but only a few of us carry it. If it becomes more common, however, watch out.

Article Source: http://www.inpop.net

John Grimme is with AllTerrainco.com - makers of sanitizers that kills MSRA staph infection bacteria in less than 15 seconds.

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