Schools... Staph Infections, and Deaths Raise the Alarm

BigV · 10-23-2007, 12:08 PM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1193...googlenews_wsj

jester · 10-23-2007, 12:36 PM

Our school (were the boy plays football), several had staph within the past 2 months. Two or Three had it bad enough (not hospitalization, though). Just seems "odd" that there has been such a strain this year. What "seems" to be the difference, from this year than any other year?

glatt · 10-23-2007, 03:20 PM

The press is focusing on it this year.

It was sharks a couple years ago, and pit bulls a few years before that. Oh yeah, and the bird flu was in there too.

jinx · 10-23-2007, 03:22 PM

I wonder if there's a vaccine in the works...

Shawnee123 · 10-24-2007, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

The press is focusing on it this year.

It was sharks a couple years ago, and pit bulls a few years before that. Oh yeah, and the bird flu was in there too.

I'm still waiting on the Killer Bees. (sudden scary organ music swells)

ZenGum · 10-24-2007, 10:34 AM

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I'm still waiting on the Killer Bees. (sudden scary organ music swells)

You find my organ scary?

Shawnee123 · 10-24-2007, 10:54 AM

I've just never met anyone whose organ had its own theme song before.

ZenGum · 10-24-2007, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I've just never met anyone whose organ had its own theme song before.

I wanted Ode to Joy or the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but all I could get was the five notes from Close Encounters of the ..... Third .... Kind ....

I sense potential ... Should we start a thread for this?

Kitsune · 10-24-2007, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

It was sharks a couple years ago, and pit bulls a few years before that. Oh yeah, and the bird flu was in there too.

I thought it was brain eating amoebas?

MRSA scares the hell out of me, though. A friend of mine picked it up seemingly out of nowhere and had a really difficult time shaking it. Having something eat away at part of your body and watch doctors administer drug after drug with no effect is really scary.

10-23-2007, 12:08 PM	#1
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10-23-2007, 03:22 PM	#4
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	I wonder if there's a vaccine in the works... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

10-23-2007, 12:36 PM	#2
jester why so serious Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,712	Our school (were the boy plays football), several had staph within the past 2 months. Two or Three had it bad enough (not hospitalization, though). Just seems "odd" that there has been such a strain this year. What "seems" to be the difference, from this year than any other year?

10-23-2007, 03:20 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The press is focusing on it this year. It was sharks a couple years ago, and pit bulls a few years before that. Oh yeah, and the bird flu was in there too.

10-24-2007, 10:54 AM	#7
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I've just never met anyone whose organ had its own theme song before.

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