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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 07:59 PM
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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.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 08:00 PM
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1. Wouldn't this be better
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 08:01 PM
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2. Mods Please delete I was replying to another thread
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-04 08:09 PM
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3. There are approximately 100,000 fatal nosocomial infections a year
in U.S. hospitals.

These are infections you get from the hospital -- poor handwashing, bacteria on the doctor's tie, just being around a whole bunch of sick people.

"Complications following surgery" are often nosocomial infections. Staph is a big culprit -- it's a tough bug to kill; many strains are becoming resistant to common antibiotics.

A columnist who writes for my magazine said that more people probably died on Sept. 11 from infections they got in the hospital than from the attacks. (I edit a trade magazine for the commercial janitorial industry). He got a lot of crap for saying so, but it's probably true.
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