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Intimidation Tactics by CNA Claims Adjusters and Third Party Medical Providers
Disclaimer: This post is regards to those injured contractors who were so badly mutilated and incapacitated that they required home health care services, at least the ones that got medical services at all. Or those injured contractors in England, South Africa, and Australia that CNA calls their Tacticor and Tangiers Dogs on. These abusive tactics [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Iraq war superbug in Abu Dhabi hospitals
Mitya Underwood at The Nation Research by the United Arab Emirates University found that, in every hospital studied, Acinetobacter baumannii was present and resistant to antibiotics at a rate “very high by all international comparison”. The study found more than 95 per cent of isolated outbreak samples were resistant to antibiotics, compared with only six [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hospital Acquired Acinetobacter baumannii Infections Can be Controlled with Standard Measures
After years of obfuscating and claiming that Acinetobacter baumannii infections were some strange mystery we finally get a truth Hospital-Acquired Acinetobacter baumannii Infections Can Be Controlled With Standard Measures, Education: Presented at ICAAC By Ed Susman SAN FRANCISCO — September 13, 2009 — An education program plus utilisation of hand washing and other conservative approaches [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Concerns Over Superbugs in our Food Supply
The meat you buy could be contaminated with drug-resistant MRSA By Stephanie Woodard updated 8:16 a.m. ET, Wed., July 15, 2009// <![CDATA[// About two years ago, dozens of workers at a large chicken hatchery in Arkansas began experiencing mysterious skin rashes, with painful lumps scattered over their hands, arms, and legs. “They hurt real bad,” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gut Harbors antibiotic resistance
The millions of microbes that crowd the human intestinal tract are teeming with new antibiotic resistance genes that could jump to disease-causing pathogens, according to researchers from Harvard University. They found more than 90 undiscovered bacterial genes capable of conferring antibiotic resistance hiding in microbes harvested from two healthy adults. They report their findings in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )KPC The Other Potential Pandemic
KPC: The Other Potential Pandemic–And We’re Completely Ignoring It From Mike the Mad Biologist n the midst of the concern about TEH SWINEY FLOO!, very few people (other than the Mad Biologist), have been discussing the double whammy of influenza followed by bacterial infections. A couple of years ago, I first started describing reports of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Germs and flu are up: infection control is down
Recession forces hospitals to cut back on superbug safety, survey says By JoNel Aleccia Health writer msnbc.com Even as the threat from drug-resistant germs continues to rise and a novel swine flu virus sweeps the country, U.S. hospitals are cutting back on staff and resources to battle potentially deadly patient infections.More than 40 percent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Florida vs. the Superbug
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article989567.ece MRSA killed Alonzo Smith, an 18-year-old football player from Liberty High School in Kissimmee last September. Smith follows a long line of football players who have been sickened after infection with MRSA, a highly resistant superbug. In fact, the National Football League was so concerned about the spread of MRSA in locker rooms that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Swine Flu Updates
The most reliable and truthful place on the web to get your updates on the Swine Flu is at Effect Measure http://www.scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/ Here you will get the translation from experts of the reports coming out by our CDC and the WHO. Interactive World Wide Maps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=118241535231063390954.000468430d173dabe781b&ll=19.506625,-96.601989&spn=135.024232,211.992188&t=h&z=2 Flu Trackers Forum http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/index.php? Health Map Global Disease [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MRSA, Acinetobacter baumannii, C diff, and more
Welcome to Florida Infectious Disease Blog Here we hope to help keep your informed and give you a place to discuss the update infectious disease problems facing Florida and our world today.
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