Nov 14

MRSA – The Super Bug Epidemic

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You hear it in the news and your neighbors are all talking about this super bacteria, MRSA, running rampant among our school children and athletes. What is it?  How do you avoid it? Can we kill it? What’s your real risk?  For answers to these questions and more listen now…

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One Response to “MRSA – The Super Bug Epidemic”

  1. 1. Dr Jim Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    One more reason to ask your doctor or health worker if they washed their hands before treating you. Already we knew that 75% don’t comply with accepted hand washing practices. But now we find that 1 in 20 are carriers of the super-bug MRSA. Most (95%) have no sypmtoms of the infection. Here’s the study: Lancet Infect Dis 2008; 8: 289-301

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