The BBC investigates the presence of germs in one British home. In particular they focused on whether it has MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), salmonella, E-coli, and flu viruses which a scammy cleansing product claims it can all kill. The finding: they found none of these bugs in the kitchen and other parts of the house but they did find the deadly MRSA on the computer mouse.
Grant Hill Tips on Preventing MRSA Infections
Basketball star Grant Hill of the Phoenix Suns was once infected with the deadly MRSA superbug but he was, fortunately, able to beat the disease.
Timely Diagnosis for Flesh Eating Bacteria
Most of the flesh-eating bacteria lawsuits are based on allegations that doctors or hospital staff failed to immediately diagnose the disease. Of course, if you’ve been reading this site, you would already know that – to be fair to doctors and other medical staff – the flesh eating disease is kind of hard to diagnose. What makes it so fatal is that if the disease is not diagnosed and treated ASAP, death from the infection can occur very fast within hours.
Anyhoo, here’s a story of a sports journalist named Joe McDonnell who was able to beat the disease because of the timely diagnosis by his doctor. The Press Telegram reports: Continue reading →
How Common is the Flesh Eating Disease?
How common is the flesh-eating disease? It’s actually very rare (only about 9,000-11,500 cases in the U.S. are reported each year according to the Center for Disease Control) but the disease appears to be becoming more common than in the past.
Dr. Alan Bisno, a retired University of Miami expert who has lectured other doctors on this, told the Associated Press: “In the first 20 years I practiced, I may have seen one case. Within a very few years, everybody in the audience had all seen cases.”
Flesh Eating Disease Treatment and Prevention: Is Mutant Gene the Key?
A mutant gene may be the key that would help us humans combat the rare but deadly flesh eating disease.
Here’s the press release (from back in December 2009) about a research study by The Methodist Research Institute in Houston which found that a gene mutation lessens the deadly effect of the flesh eating bacteria.
Successful Flesh Eating Bug Lawsuits
Here’s another successful flesh eating disease lawsuit. It involves a woman who died from a flesh eating bacteria infection following a routine hip replacement operation at the South Cheshire private hospital.
£80k for man whose wife died from flesh-eating bug
by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post/Jul 3 2007
