Armed forces 'superbug' menaces UK

TheMercenary · 12-23-2007, 01:57 PM

Interesting.

Armed forces 'superbug' menaces UK

The UK, the United States and Canada are facing growing fears over a drug-resistant 'superbug' being brought back by wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq that threatens to contaminate civilian hospitals.
The intensified concern comes amid sharply rising infection rates in the US and fresh worries in Canada that the bug could be imported into its civilian healthcare system. Military health officials who have studied the bacterium in Afghanistan believe the infection of wounded British soldiers in field hospitals there is probably inevitable.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...228205,00.html

xoxoxoBruce · 12-23-2007, 02:05 PM

The Brit wounded coming back, all go into the national health system.

Beevee · 12-24-2007, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The Brit wounded coming back, all go into the national health system.

So? What point are you making?

xoxoxoBruce · 12-24-2007, 10:01 AM

Rather than being segregated, in a military hospital, they are thrown in the same facilities as the general population. That makes it harder to keep things from spreading.

Sundae · 12-24-2007, 11:13 AM

And it's pretty shocking in itself.
I deplore the fact that the military no longer have their own hospitals.

classicman · 12-24-2007, 12:03 PM

Does that have anything to do with some type of "Universal Healthcare" ? Cuz if it does - I'm out!

xoxoxoBruce · 12-24-2007, 12:43 PM

Yes, returning wounded go into the National Health System, or whatever it's called.

Sundae · 12-24-2007, 03:03 PM

Actually it's stupid fucked up Government policy rather than being directly connected to having the NHS. Obviously if we didn't have the NHS, various governments of different flavours wouldn't have been able to penny-pinch the military hospitals closed. But the reverse isn't true, i.e. a condition of having Govt funded healthcare doesn't automatically mean soldiers should be treated in public wards.

Many voters are against this TBH. But without a referendum what can you do? We're a representative democracy, not a true democracy.

12-23-2007, 01:57 PM	#1
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12-23-2007, 02:05 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The Brit wounded coming back, all go into the national health system. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-24-2007, 10:01 AM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Rather than being segregated, in a military hospital, they are thrown in the same facilities as the general population. That makes it harder to keep things from spreading. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-24-2007, 11:13 AM	#5
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	And it's pretty shocking in itself. I deplore the fact that the military no longer have their own hospitals. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

12-24-2007, 12:03 PM	#6
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Does that have anything to do with some type of "Universal Healthcare" ? Cuz if it does - I'm out! __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

12-24-2007, 12:43 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yes, returning wounded go into the National Health System, or whatever it's called. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-24-2007, 03:03 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Actually it's stupid fucked up Government policy rather than being directly connected to having the NHS. Obviously if we didn't have the NHS, various governments of different flavours wouldn't have been able to penny-pinch the military hospitals closed. But the reverse isn't true, i.e. a condition of having Govt funded healthcare doesn't automatically mean soldiers should be treated in public wards. Many voters are against this TBH. But without a referendum what can you do? We're a representative democracy, not a true democracy. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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