Report: 'Superbug' scourge spreads across US, but officials are failing to track it

[Divine Discontent]

UPDATED - CDC: Girl is 4th known superbug case in US
Posted 7:35 pm, September 11, 2016, by CNN Wire http://wtvr.com/2016/09/11/cdc-girl-is-4th-known-superbug-case-in-us/


Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Yasmeen Abutaleb
Sep 10th 2016 4:00AM

RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did fine in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first 10 days of his life. Then, suddenly, his tiny body started to swell. Overnight, he grew so distended that his skin split.

His mother, Shala Bowser, said nurses at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, told her that Josiah had an infection and that she should prepare for the worst. On Sept. 2, 2010, she was allowed to hold him for the first and last time as he took his final breath. He was 17 days old.

What no one at the hospital told Bowser was that her newborn was the fourth baby in the neonatal unit to catch the same infection, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better-known as MRSA. It would sicken eight more, records show – nearly every baby in the unit – before the outbreak had run its course. --- continued at http://www.aol.com/article/2016/09/10/superbug-scourge-spreads-across-us-but-officials-are-failing/21469215/





----- I'm always so concerned when I go into a hospital where there's fluids all over and floors are sticky. There was a kindly gentlemen next to my brother in their shared hospital room, and that guy passed from complications of hepatitis. I was a bit scared about my brother being in the same room with neurological problems. I always was telling people to use hand sanitizer who came into the room to talk and assess my brother who obviously had a weakened immunity. It seemed like so many were ignorant of the risk of infection, or more frustratingly, didn't care because the patients are just 'customers' to some. This story really is well written, and states a true need to address this problem better.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. If only pro-life groups would just focus on keeping babies alive. N/t

[Lunabell]

5. Yes, they're too busy on making women incubate fetuses.

They forget they are going to be living breathing little creatures one day and need food, shelter, clothing , education, etc.. But, you're fucked and on your own then.

[AllyCat]

2. MRSA is a problem. Being born at 25 weeks is a bigger one

No 25 weeker is "doing fine" at 10 days old. MRSA spreads so easily. It lives on fabric so drapes that separate patients, scrubs, lab coats, and poor hand hygiene can do it. Curtains should not cover doors to rooms. Staff should always wear gloves and gowns to touch or hold ANY baby. Ventilators need to be meticulously cleaned. Parents must be notified of surveillance culture results especially when positive.

I'm sorry this family lost their baby. 😓

[Divine Discontent]

6. good post!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's as bad as mold stains on roofs

25 years ago never saw them at least here in the northeast

Now ... everywhere.

[Divine Discontent]

7. yeah, I tend to not think about that, but you're right, some serious changes n/t

[BlueCollar]

4. kick and bookmarked for later.