Killer Rash Breaks Out

May 30, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE

A vicious skin infection resistant to all but the most powerful antibiotics has jumped out of New York City hospitals and onto the streets.

The "superbug," as health officials refer to it, can cause anything from reddening of the skin, to abscesses, tissue loss, amputation or even death in severe cases, doctors said.

For decades confined to hospitals, where it preyed on patients and built up immunity to antibiotics, the bug - known officially as Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or MRSA - has also grown in strength.


THE SUPERBUG: One new case a week of MRSA is being detected in some New York City clinics.

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There are now three antibiotics left that can attack MRSA: vancomysin, daptomycin and linezolid. But those antibiotics are beginning to lose their potency against the bug.

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Egads... MRSA is nothing new.

There are now three antibiotics left that can attack MRSA: vancomysin, daptomycin and linezolid. But those antibiotics are beginning to lose their potency against the bug.

It sucks, and makes me want to avoid hospitals even more than I already do. Until they come up with viable alternatives to traditional antibiotics, like bacteriophages, we're fucked.

We're all fucked. It helps to remember that."--George Carlin

in more civilized countries.

The rash "broke out" of the hospital? Was it armed? Did it tie towels together to make a rope and escape through a window? Did it take hostages? Are there search dogs looking for it?:)

no one in YOUR FAMILY contracts this disease!

You have some issues. This is not a matter to be taken lightly.
What's more, IMHO this is a MUCH more serious threat than some
pantsy "Al-Qaeda" bs booga-booga.

Too bad antibiotic producers never warned us about their products...
and now we're paying the ultimate price...or will be...

Killer Rash Breaks Out????

needless to say I don't find it the laughing matter some other posters apparently do. Admittedly had she been healthier she may have made it but we can never know.

My cousin died in a hospital in Florida several years ago


when he was hospitalized for an injury and contacted a staph infection and died from it. A hospital where I live has been known for staph infections for several years and a nurse who works there told me it has not gotten better,so staph may on the rise more than we know. Many deaths in hospitals probably are staph related but don't get reported as such.

Mostly older and sicker people but not always. sadly we have overused our drugs to the point of inefficacy.

Truly sorry for your loss.

That's horrible, just horrible. My sincerest sympathies.

It has been a long month and a half. Thursday was her birthday which was sort of rough. She apparently caught it from the home she was in.

Unrelated but check your inbox.

She's been gone since December 7, 1997. I'm very sorry for your loss. :-(

:hug:

condolences, dsc.

may she rest in peace.

:hug: I don't find this the least bit funny. It's frightening as hell that we have a disease that may not be treatable. Geez. Not funny at all.

It is one bad ass bug.

and to dsc, I am really sorry about your Mom. Both of my parents have been deceased for about 12 years. Its tough. I hope you are getting through it ok.:grouphug: