Friday, October 19, 2007

MRSA and super bugs/ from pets to people and back

Sadly there are schools all over the country that have been closed because of serious and deadly staph infections. In fact a college here in Ct and several other schools have had incidents of these things. Going back a year and a half ...I remember just how casual..the vets seeing Mr Beebs were about the bacteria coming out of his leg. Lately i have seen the custodian at my college washing the floors with ammonia or bleach and water.This was several weeks before the student dies in Virginia from MRSA.Oh boy...the only good news I can see coming out of all this is that it is bringing national attention to a problem that has been swept under the carpet for far too long.
When I look back to the amount of contact I had with various strains of these bugs I consider myself lucky I did not become seriously ill. The public health guy here in CT is a vet and he left a message on my phone saying these bugs were opportunist...meaning I guess someone with a compromised immune system.How did he know I don't have aids or have chemo treatment at present? What made him and all the other vets be so sure that every single person and animal in there waiting room was indeed in picture perfect health?s. A Position based on ignorance and laziness. As a consumer it has dawned on me that in all the various operations ,treatment and drugs that were used and paid for over a year and a half...that not ONE of these doctors was a specialist in this field ..nor did they send me to any specialist..they experimented with my dog and my pocket book.When in truth...there wasn't a dam thing that they were doing that could have stopped the progress of this nightmare. Oh course it wasn't cost effective to say that though..As long as I was willing to believe in the false hopes they were dishing out they were more than happy to take my money and put Mr Beebs through an astonishing amount of useless surgery and treatment that was doomed to fail from the start. I hope these national cases will bring outrage from the general population..as it should.Keeping this under raps has done alot more harm than good.Now I must go write to the lawyer here in CT that is willing to help me work on the legislative process.One small step at a time.

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