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I work in a rehab facility and for whatever reasons, these diseases are getting much more prevalent. It used to be elderly people who got sepsis (and MRSA) now we get a lot all ages. We’ve even had a couple of patients with flesh eating bacteria which I never saw before in 20+ years. I don’t know if it’s antibiotic overuse creating superbugs, something in the environment or a combination but something is very wrong.
I work in a rehab facility and for whatever reasons, these diseases are getting much more prevalent. It used to be elderly people who got sepsis (and MRSA) now we get a lot all ages. We’ve even had a couple of patients with flesh eating bacteria which I never saw before in 20+ years. I don’t know if it’s antibiotic overuse creating superbugs, something in the environment or a combination but something is very wrong.
We also travel and import more 'stuff' from other parts of the world. It may be like introducing measles and chicken pox to the Native Americans who had never experienced those diseases before and didn't have generations of immunity handed down.
We also travel and import more 'stuff' from other parts of the world. It may be like introducing measles and chicken pox to the Native Americans who had never experienced those diseases before and didn't have generations of immunity handed down.
Sepsis and these other diseases have always been here though, it’s the prevalence and severity of them that have increased.
I work in a rehab facility and for whatever reasons, these diseases are getting much more prevalent. It used to be elderly people who got sepsis (and MRSA) now we get a lot all ages. We’ve even had a couple of patients with flesh eating bacteria which I never saw before in 20+ years. I don’t know if it’s antibiotic overuse creating superbugs, something in the environment or a combination but something is very wrong.
I used to think it was antibiotic overuse but I do not any longer. We are dangerously tampering with our adaptive (learned) immunity & antibiotics do not have that capability.
Antibiotics fight bacteria. Building natural immunity to viruses can also help our bodies fight bacteria. Altering our bodies adaptation to viruses is, I think; causing us to weaken our ability to fight bacteria.
I think we are seeing some very unfortunate consequences of this during flu season & the CDCs 'anti-antibiotic' campaign isn't helping. People who get the flu are dying from bacterial sepsis & pneumonia.
I've noticed the same thing with MRSA; used to be a nursing home problem. Now we have young people testing positive for MRSA after getting a bug bite ... makes no sense at all.
........which she said had been "slightly infected."......
That sounds like the cut was infected before the dog got to it. So maybe it had nothing to do with the dog at all. Not that I'd be allowing my dog to lick open wounds, but it doesn't sound like it was the dog that caused the original issue.
That dog won't ever have the chance to bite the hand that fed it now.
She has no intention of parting ways with the puppy and both the puppy and her second dog have been to the hospital to visit her twice. The article said the bacteria is present in most dogs (74%). What’s new is it spreading so easily to otherwise healthy humans and being so virulent once it does. It’s not this puppy specifically that’s the problem.
I love my cat and love pets in general, but I never understood how some people let their pets/other animals lick and slobber all over them and don't wash their hands or (in cases like these) properly sanitize open wounds that were licked, etc., by pets.
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