MRSA and Bed Bugs
Cornell University scientist Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann is blaming Bedbugs for people getting sick in hospitals from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (AKA MRSA). Gangloff-Kaufmann says bedbug bites are making it easy for MRSA to find hiding places to grow. The director of clinical microbiology and immunity at NYU Langone Medical Center, Philip Tierno, says that “It’s just common sense.” but adds that he’d also like to see a study. “The biggest problem comes when you scratch. If you have staph on you then you introduce that organism into the scratch and you could get a secondary infection”
MRSA bacteria can hide in a person’s noses or other areas of the body* without causing illness but once the skin is broken the MRSA is able to enter the body and attack, which is particularly dangerous and even deadly to those whose natural immune system has been compromised. The infection can then quickly “cause toxic shock,” says Mr. Tierno. This toxic shock syndrome is what can then lead to emergency amputations or death, of which about 86% (of these serious infections) are acquired in hospitals and other medical facilities.
*(on skin, in boils, pimples, and throat infections, and usually spread when carriers handle food. MRSA produce toxins at warm temperatures which are not destroyed by cooking. Meat, poultry, salads, cheese, eggs, custards, and cream-filled desserts are all susceptible foods.)
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Thanks for posting and informing I have been taking radio interviews.
News, Interviews all over the Country.
It is not about me, I just was blessed with a Good Mother who would never
lie, cheat or steal.
Some times an MD takes 5 minutes with a patient, it is, us Nurses who are the the backbone taking your orders. I left working as an RN in a hospital, because I saw the political quagmire.
Homeopathic and Alternative Medicine needs to be utilized. We can help people, to help themselves get well. I was beginning to see that were fights by Doctors and the CDC I spoke with Michelle Pearson and I think she was Not really interested. She actually said that the outcome of the their studies is not going to make the Morgellons Community happy. Now they have passed the buck to the Army Institute of Pathology. We’ll get answers real soon from them. NOT going to happen.
The CDC gave a Contract to Kaiser Permanente for 350 thousand dollars to have Kaiser study this. They sent these patients right back the Doctors that had called them delusional in the first place.
A bit of a Conflict of Interest in my personal opinion.
The politics are insane, doctors calling it nannobots that are spewing out fbers. This just does nothing to help the cause, meanwhile the Humans are suffering.
I worked during the HIV-AIDs mess, do you know people refused to take HIV patients. I took most these patients, because I have no fear. I learned a lot about their disease and how the felt and watched some die, but I was always so curious and wanted to understand HIV-AIDs.
If anyone is waiting on the CDC to validate you. You can forget it.
You could be dead by then.
What ever happened to empathy, compassion and kindness. Mostly what happened to CURIOSITY, PEOPLE ARE NOT LABS THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS.
If it is MRSA….which I highly doubt, then show me the swabs that proves
MRSA. I have patients who are told it is MRSA and he kept her across the room and didn’t even do a swab test and see what grows.
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck……It’s Bugs. LOL
Trisha
You’re doing amazing things. I’ve been following you on the web for a long time, keeping an eye on your progress and how many people have blessed you for helping them. You really are an angel, but you know, sometimes I worry about you too, and think “what if this gets to be too much for her? what if this angel winds up unable to fly because the CDC and a lot of other agencies keep putting you off and letting you down?” and then I think to myself “she’s a woman – and they’re versatile. If she loses a wing and can’t fly like an angel, they better all look out, because she can pick up a broomstick and fly like a witch!”
Lots of people are rooting for you Ms Springstead. You are not alone.