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 "In the 1990s, a type of mrsa appeared in the wider community. Today, that form of Staph, known as community-associated mrsa, or CA-MRSA, is responsible for many serious infections of the skin and other soft tissues and a serious form of pneumonia.
How does Staph become ?acn yeaf some soo,000 patients in American drug-resistant? There are two hospitals contract a Staph infection. ways this an happen. First, a bacteria like Staph can mutate so it can evade an antibiotic."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "For instance, new strains of the bacterium methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or mrsa (which is highly resistant to antibiotics) are becoming more common. What was previously a simple cut on the finger can now grow into something that could kill you in a few days. The number of mrsa cases is growing exponentially.
Another particularly negative outcome of antibiotic overuse is the development of Clostridium difficile, which occurs when the normal bacteria of the colon are wiped out."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "Healthy people can be colonized with mrsa and have no ill effects. The problem is that while they may not be ill, they can pass the germ to others who can become very ill with infection.
Staph bacteria are generally harmless unless they enter the body through a cut or other wound. In healthy people the result is minor, but in people who are elderly, ill or have weakened immunity, ordinary Staph infections can cause serious illness, including meningitis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome and septicemia.
In the 1990s, a type of mrsa appeared in the wider community." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Today, that form of Staph, known as community-associated mrsa, or CA-MRSA, is responsible for many serious infections of the skin and other soft tissues and a serious form of pneumonia. How does Staph become ?acn yeaf some soo,000 patients in American drug-resistant? There are two hospitals contract a Staph infection. ways this an happen. First, a bacteria like Staph can mutate so it can evade an antibiotic. Staph bacteria can become resistant to penicillin, a common antibiotic, when it mutates to be able to produce an enzyme which destroys the penicillin." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "One of the strains of mrsa that has rapidly spread across America is especially virulent and deadly in children, as doctors found that Christmas season in 2003. This particular strain is capable of producing a toxin called Panton-Valentine leukocidin. At its worst the toxin can cause a serious form of pneumonia that can destroy the lungs of a child in twenty-four hours."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Treatment switched to a specialized relative of penicillin called methicillin, which was introduced in 1959—and two years later, the first incident of methicillin-resistant staph, known as mrsa, was reported. mrsa is now firmly entrenched in hospitals, and treatment has moved to a different class of antibiotics, usually with one called vancomycin. The first case of VRSA—yes, vancomycin-resistant staph—was reported in 1996 in Japan.
All of this sounds frightening—as if we're in an arms race where the other side has vastly superior technology."- Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
| "The number of mrsa cases is growing exponentially.
Another particularly negative outcome of antibiotic overuse is the development of Clostridium difficile, which occurs when the normal bacteria of the colon are wiped out. Clostridium difficile usually attacks hospital patients who have been on multiple antibiotics that have wiped out their normal colonic bacteria." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "He said that one child had died not from the flu but from a mutant strain of staph known as mrsa that had grown resistant to many antibiotics.
Another child, Dr. Grose said, had died from a bacterial strep infection so vicious that it had killed its victim even before doctors could start treatment. Other physicians found, he said, that a powerful antibiotic called Rocephin had failed to work in three young patients. The children had developed empyema, a condition in which the lungs become surrounded by cupfuls of fluid, after their infections spread." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Studies had shown that patients taking these broad-spectrum antibiotics were at a higher risk of later being infected by a lethal superbug like mrsa, shorthand for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. But all Iowans, even those who did not take antibiotics, were now living with these menacing germs that could withstand even some of the most powerful modern medicines. The bugs were growing stronger, while the drugs grew weaker. "We are facing a crisis," Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In 1999 doctors reported that four children from Minnesota and North Dakota had died from the virulent mutant bug mrsa. That wasn't the part of the news that had disturbed physicians. Thousands of Americans had been dying from that drug-resistant staph bacterium every year. But until the report on the deaths of the four children, scientists had believed that people could get the lethal strain only during a stay in the hospital. These four children had been healthy and had not been in the hospital until they suddenly fell violently ill." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
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Two topical mrsa eradication regimes were compared: a standard treatment including mupirocin 2% nasal ointment, chlorhexidine gluconate 4% soap, silver sulfadiazine 1% cream versus a tea tree oil regimen, which included tea tree 10% cream, tea tree 5% body wash, both given for five days. Mupirocin was significantly more effective at clearing nasal carriage (78%) than tea tree cream (47%, p=0.0001), but tea tree treatment was more effective than chlorhexidine or silver sulfadiazine at clearing superficial skin sites and skin lesions (Dryden et al, 2004)."- Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) "A randomized, controlled trial of tea tree topical preparations versus a standard topical regimen for the clearance of mrsa colonization. J Hosp Infect; 56(4): 283-286. 2004. Elliott C. Tea Tree oil poisoning. Med J Aust 159:830-831. 1993. Enshaieh S, Jooya A, Siadat AH, Iraji F. The efficacy of 5% topical tea tree oil gel in mild to moderate acne vulgaris: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol; 73(1): 22-25. 2007. Hammer KA, Carson CF, Riley TV." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) |
 "Patients who are colonized with mrsa appear to run a greater risk of infection after operative or other invasive procedures than do those who lack these strains.
"For many strains (of mrsa) at low concentrations of linolenic acid and hydrolysed linseed oil, there was a striking reduction in the size of the colonies. Our data show that mrsa are sensitive to hydrolysed linseed oil as well as linolenic acid."- William L. Fischer, How to Fight Cancer & Win (Get the book.) |
 "MRSA and VRE are bad enough. mrsa plus VRE is a calamity. Researchers fear that because VRE thrives in the same critically ill patients—often in the same wounds—as does mrsa, staph could steal enterococci's vancomycin-resistance genes. The result: the most widespread hospital infection would be untreatable. (In England, researchers successfully performed this DNA transfer in the lab—and claim to have destroyed the resulting organism."- Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.) |
 "Using PCR genetic fingerprinting techniques to trace back in time over 470 mrsa strains, a team of researchers from the New York City Health Department discovered that all of the mrsa bacteria descended from a strain that first emerged in Cairo, Egypt, in 1961. By the end of that decade the strain's descendants could be found in New York, New Jersey, Dublin, Geneva, Copenhagen, London, Kampala, Nairobi, Ontario, Halifax, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon. A decade later they were seen planet-wide.11
Fortunately, staph wasn't resistant to vancomycin.
Not yet, anyway."- Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
| "But its recalcitrance didn't end there. mrsa had gone on to resist chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, erythromycin, gentamicin, imipenem, tetracycline, trimethoprim, and others. By the time it reached the Michigan man, MRSA—which now in effect stood for multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus—reliably
caved to one medication only: vancomycin, the drug of last resort. In the laboratory, the smallest concentration of vancomycin that killed the bacterium was 0.5 micrograms per milliliter of solution. This was known as the MIC, the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.) |
| "Significant mrsa problems were soon showing up in far-flung locations, from rural Ethiopia4 to Perth, Australia.5 By 1993 only one surefire Staphylococcus killer would remain: vancomycin.6 And even the reliability of vancomycin was in jeopardy, as some physicians reported the existence of mrsa strains that could not readily be cured with the last of the available anti-staph drugs." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
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 "In 1997 hospitals with fewer than two hundred beds had mrsa in 16 percent of their staph-infected patients, but hospitals with more than two hundred beds had a 27 percent incidence of mrsa. The implication was that infections spread more readily in the chaotic atmosphere of large, generally public hospitals.
Once these organisms surfaced in a hospital, "infection control is not going to be the answer," Rice insisted. "I'm not all that optimistic that we're going to be able to control this."- Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "In 1997 a French medical team examined an mrsa strain in a two-year-old cancer patient, discovering that it was resistant to vancomycin. Strikingly, the girl had never previously received vancomycin.686 The French child had barely recovered when a four-month-old baby boy in Japan got an mrsa infection along sutures from his recent surgery. Analysis of the staph found in the boy's wound showed that it, too, was vancomycin resistant.687 That same year, three such staph cases appeared in the United States." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "And one out of five staph infections involved so-called mrsa strains—that is, they were resistant to methicillin as well. mrsa strains could only be treated with the last-ditch, and expensive, antibiotic vancomycin, thus raising average treatment costs from $27,700 to $31,400 per case and increasing staph death rates from 8 percent to 17 percent.672 The pace of acquisition of resistance among disease-causing pathogens was "pretty rapid!" said Dr. Jim Hughes, director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) |
| "Up to 920,000 of them developed postsurgical bacterial infections, the majority of which were due to Staphylococcus, particularly mrsa.8
Outside day care centers and medical facilities, most dangerous Staphylococcus infection was acquired either at random by an ailing individual (one battling cancer, AIDS, heart disease, etc.) or an injecting drug user. In a 1986-89 Danish survey about 7 percent of community-acquired major mrsa infections were the results of sharing contaminated needles: that rate exceeded 10 percent in many inner-city areas of the United States." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
| "In 1997 hospitals with fewer than two hundred beds had mrsa in 16 percent of their staph-infected patients, but hospitals with more than two hundred beds had a 27 percent incidence of mrsa. The implication was that infections spread more readily in the chaotic atmosphere of large, generally public hospitals.
Once these organisms surfaced in a hospital, "infection control is not going to be the answer," Rice insisted. "I'm not all that optimistic that we're going to be able to control this." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) |
 "Subjects did not receive any other treatment such as vancomycin or other antibiotics, and mrsa readings were negative for 61.6% of the patients receiving Hochu-ekki-to® (61.6%). Hochu-ekki-to® significantly reduced the time necessary to achieve a negative mrsa reading; 47.0 +/- 5.5 days compared to 88.4 +/- 12.8 days for the control group.
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8 to 12 weeks 7.5 g per day Hochu-ekki-to® (TJ-41) wks 7."- Mark Blumenthal, The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs (Get the book.) |
| "For many strains (of mrsa) at low concentrations of linolenic acid and hydrolysed linseed oil, there was a striking reduction in the size of the colonies. Our data show that mrsa are sensitive to hydrolysed linseed oil as well as linolenic acid. Preparations containing hydrolysed linseed oil may have a role in the eradication of the staphylococcal carrier state and could also be useful for prophylaxis, especially in debilitated patients."
Not only in Australia but all over the world, the risk of contracting a staph infection while in a hospital is very real." - William L. Fischer, How to Fight Cancer & Win (Get the book.) |
| "Using PCR genetic fingerprinting techniques to trace back in time over 470 mrsa strains, a team of researchers from the New York City Health Department discovered that all of the mrsa bacteria descended from a strain that first emerged in Cairo, Egypt, in 1961. By the end of that decade the strain's descendants could be found in New York, New Jersey, Dublin, Geneva, Copenhagen, London, Kampala, Nairobi, Ontario, Halifax, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon. A decade later they were seen planet-wide.11
Fortunately, staph wasn't resistant to vancomycin.
Not yet, anyway." - Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
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