Originally published May 11 2005
Spread of resistant staph infections has doctors very concerned
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The drug-resistant staphylococcus infection is spreading at an alarming rate outside hospitals and nursing homes in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 17 percent of the drug-resistant staph infections are not linked to health-care settings. Patients with open wounds or tubes are at risk for catching a deadly staph infection, but the CDC study has shown that the deadly are making their way outside of hospitals and nursing homes.
Dangerous drug-resistant staphylococcus infections are showing up at an alarming rate outside hospitals and nursing homes in the United States, researchers are reporting today.
Until recently, these hard-to-treat cases were seen only in hospitals and other health-care settings, where they can spread to patients with open wounds or tubes and cause serious complications.
Now doctors are seeing resistant strains among inmates, children and athletes.
In a study of patients in Baltimore, the Atlanta area and Minnesota, researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 17 percent of the drug-resistant staph infections had no apparent links to health-care settings.
''Close to one-fifth of what used to be a hospital-specific problem is now a community problem.
And that's a large number,'' said Dr. Scott K. Fridkin, an epidemiologist at the centers.
''We didn't think it would be anywhere near that high when we started the study.''
The findings were published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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