(NaturalNews) A recent Henry Ford Hospital study revealed that a new strain of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the deadly bacterial "superbug" that becomes resistant to many antibiotics, is five times more deadly than other previously-seen strains. Fifty percent of patients who become infected with the new virulent strain die within 30 days; other MRSA strains kill only about 11 percent.
Called
USA600, the new strain possesses uniquely noxious characteristics that researchers are linking to the significantly higher mortality rate. Study findings were presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of
America in Philadelphia.
Typical
MRSA strains are problematic because they are resistant to virtually every available antibiotic drug. Most MRSA
infections are allegedly treatable with vancomycin, a powerful intravenous
drug, but the new USA600 strain has proven itself to be nearly impervious to the drug.
Deadly MRSA strains typically take hold on a person through skin and blood infections, as well as through surgical wounds. While predominantly contracted in
health care facilities like hospitals and clinics, the
disease is now starting to make the rounds in otherwise healthy people in the outside world.
Experts are associating the increased resistance of deadly MRSA strains to the over-prescription by doctors of
antibiotics for all sorts of
conditions that do not need them. According to Joel Fuhman, an M.D. from New Jersey,
studies show that 90 percent of antibiotics are prescribed for viral diseases, against which they have no effect.
When antibiotics are prescribed needlessly for conditions like a child's ear
infection, which is viral rather than bacterial, they do more harm than good by killing off the child's beneficial
bacteria. As a result, the child's immune system is weakened making them more susceptible to developing other illnesses and being prescribed more antibiotics.
Europe's Centre for Disease Control warns that if excessive
antibiotic use is not curbed, antibiotics will become all but useless and modern medical procedures like organ transplants and neonatal care for babies will no longer be possible.
Modern
medicine must also reawaken to the incredible power of
colloidal silver in stopping harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungal infections. Studies show that there is virtually no bacterial strain resistant to silver's powerful antibacterial effects. When developed properly for therapeutic use, colloidal
silver packs a punch unlike any other antibiotic.
Sources for this story includehttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/hfhs-hfh102809.phphttp://thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/2304-antibiotic-ov...http://www.silvermedicine.org/scientificstudies.html
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