Re: What happened to MRSA?
I think it's still around lencoboy.
My mum contracted it in hospital 6 years ago.
Re: What happened to MRSA?
I don't doubt in any way that it's still around.
But it no longer seems to be the media's favourite 'bogeyman' disease/ 'Armageddon' scenario (a la Covid, Monkeypox, etc), nor the same big issue to be having intense digs at the govt over.
Re: What happened to MRSA?
Could you imagine if MRSA and COPD had a child? What would the name be? ;)
FMP
Re: What happened to MRSA?
I think that these things just get less publicity as we learn to get them mostly under control. I think MRSA tests before surgery are routine now.
Re: What happened to MRSA?
Is this type of thing your unhealthy obsession, Lenco?
It's mainly crime with me. Or injustice. Have to (try) and regulate myself or my anxiety goes nuts..
Re: What happened to MRSA?
I had to have an MRSA screen before having surgery 3 years ago. As Blue says, it's a routine procedure now.
Are you worried about your mum picking it up at the care home? If you are you can always ask about the home's policy regarding all infection control? Much better to get a definitive answer rather than ruminate on possible modes of transmission etc...
Re: What happened to MRSA?
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NoraB
Is this type of thing your unhealthy obsession, Lenco?
It's more to do with the fact that my mom will be admitted to a care home (provisionally for the next fortnight) for assessment this afternoon, and that care homes (like hospitals) were often hotbeds for MRSA during the alleged 'epidemic' back in the 2000s. In retrospect it seemed like one of the 'Covids' of the time.
Of course such places were also hotbeds for Covid earlier in the pandemic.
But I guess there's more rigorous cleaning and sanitisation in such places of late, whereas pre-2020 (and during the aforementioned MRSA 'epidemic'), such practices were generally more lax.
I guess the same also applies to places like schools, day centres, etc, which can also be susceptible to many bugs/viruses spreading.
Also, what happened to the recent Hepatitis 'epidemic' that was in the news around the spring of this year?
That in itself barely seems to get mentioned of late.
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NoraB
It's mainly crime with me. Or injustice. Have to (try) and regulate myself or my anxiety goes nuts..
Same with me, but that's for a whole 'nother thread.
Re: What happened to MRSA?
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pulisa
I had to have an MRSA screen before having surgery 3 years ago. As Blue says, it's a routine procedure now.
Are you worried about your mum picking it up at the care home? If you are you can always ask about the home's policy regarding all infection control? Much better to get a definitive answer rather than ruminate on possible modes of transmission etc...
I guess there will always be the 'fear of the unknown' Pulisa.
But as already mentioned, rigorous cleaning and hygiene practices are now pretty much routine in such places. Plus the authorities and the local media would no doubt woe betide them and take them to court if they were caught foul of poor practices of hygiene and general cleanliness, especially in today's rampant suing culture, and of course not forgetting the H & S culture.