MRSA is more dangerous than HIV

Deadly MRSA bacteria found in homes, schools and gyms.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDPC), MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) bacteria are rampaging in hospitals that actually kill more people than AIDS

In the issue of the American Medical Association last week, the researchers said there were at least 94,360 cases of MRSA and 18,650 deaths since 2005. Medical records also show, schools The same infections continue to increase every year.

Many students in US states have recently died of infections caused by MRSA, mainly spread through face-to-face contact and develop staph infection . The first symptoms are similar to pimples on the skin, after a certain time will infect the blood, attack the organs inside the body and easily kill when most of the current antibiotics are not works .

Signs of an outbreak

According to leading experts, the number of patients with MRSA infection is constantly increasing worldwide. This is a warning sign of future dangerous outbreaks. The number of 18,650 MRSA deaths in the US since 2005 has been a 'humble representation' for a series of infections over the past decade. Because ' the spread of MRSA is not an early one, it has actually been under attack for about 50 years, ' said Professor Cyrus Hopkins, an infection specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

MRSA on the arm
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According to the American Medical Association, healthy people are not subject to attack and rarely develop disease, while up to 77% of MRSA deaths since 2005 occur mainly on the elderly. 65 years old; Because this is the age at which the body's immune system becomes weak, unlike those under age 65, the likelihood of dying is only 1 / 600,000.

Still according to BS Hopkins, the chances of infection with MRSA are often very low in young people , even if exposed, the risk of infection is not significant, and if it is infected, it is completely normal. The low risk of death in young people is mainly due to the resistance of the body's immune system to disabling 'dangerous intruders'.

Evolutionary line

So where does the origin of MRSA come from ? The answer lies in the way our bodies defend the disease with support

MRSA bacteria wound on the skin surface ( Photo: optimalhealthusa.com )

Help of antibiotics. Antibiotics, when injected into the body, directly kill bacteria or control them, leading to a neutralization of the immune system. According to Dr. Martin Blaser, Professor of New York University School of Medicine and former president of the American Association of Infectious Diseases, each type of antibiotic is only really effective within a few years. " The evolution of bacteria will start to function as soon as patients are given antibiotics, and MRSA is the most typical example " - he explained. Not only does this bacterium increase resistance, but it can transform into new strains that are more dangerous when combined with some ' friendly bacteria' in the body, while antibiotics do not keep up. genetic changes that they inherit. If a similar drug is reused, its effectiveness will be worse than before. It is the repetition of the immune system's attack cycle that unintentionally reveals 'secret ', and eventually dangerous bacteria like MRSA will know this weakness to gradually neutralize. The important issue now is that making a new antibiotic often requires a lot of time and money; and resistant bacteria will remain until we develop antibiotics in the old way and do not change the purpose of use .

However, recent victims in at least nine US states are healthy subjects. ' MRSA's responsibility is beyond the scope of hospitals that are often the origin of drug-resistant infections. This strain of bacteria not only attacks weak, sick people but is also capable of infecting healthy people, such as a scratched soccer player who can become a victim. . - Professor Blaser said - MRSA may have passed the principle of infection . ! '.

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