MRSA And Your Life Update

Just such screening is now being introduced into Britain's hospitals, even better would be more intensive screening of anyone associated in their work with pigs or pork production.

The Dutch have done this for the past four years with great success. It seems to be much cheaper and much more effective. Quick universal tests are not that accurate and miss many carriers.

I have spent almost decade on this disaster, day after day: there at the beginning, with pigs and in pig country when the horror story started.

We decided on a self-sufficient lifestyle and walked into a nightmare.

There is little doubt that MRSA in pigs has been leaking into the hospitals for some years.

There was a nasty mutation to a porcine circovirus in Britain in 1999 which caused an epidemic that required huge quantities of antibiotics to handle the consequences.

MRSA in pigs was the result, usually the ST398 strain.

The Dutch picked up the problem about four years ago and commendably make everything they knew public.

Both circovirus and MRSA epidemics have now travelled the world along with accompanying cover-ups. It is quite a nasty situation - now coming to light in the USA.

MRSA st398, mutated circovirus and various other unpleasant zoonotic diseases have now reached American pig farms.

The people exposing the scandal in the US are to be commended.

I have extensive records available to anyone researching the link and can often answer general questions quickly and accurately.

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
LINK and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com

MRSA, VRE, and C. Diff is rampant in all Hospitals, Nursing Homes, and Long Term Chronic Care facilities both in the United States and Canada. We have started an agressive screening protocol at my local Hospital where I work but unfortunately, the employees who have been constantly exposed to the above MRSA, VRE & C. Diff., are not being screened. JACHO/CDC should insist. Thank you.

Pat, Jill, and Wayne,
Appreciate your comments.

Thanks for addressing this major public safety threat in our hospitals and other health care facilities. I am one of the people who almost lost my life to MRSA almost two years ago and I am still struggling with the aftermath of abdominal abscesses, Sepsis and DIC. I was admitted for routine surgery and was almost dead two weeks later. When I was admitted to the hospital for the surgery, I was placed in a room that had not been cleaned and I walked in the sticky IV fluids of the patient before me before I got into bed. I think that I probably carried those germs with me into the operating room. There was little enforcement of hand washing and one nurse even complained about how "impractical" it was to wash hands between each patient. Once I was diagnosed with MRSA, the hospital did not even implement contact precautions with me and my guests were not advised to use any precautions. I was never told that I was contagious, and at one point, when I was feeling well enough to walk, I was sitting out at the nurses station looking at my labs on the computer. I am horrified to think that I might have infected other people at the hospital.

I think that lawyers need to stop being so afraid to take MRSA med-mal cases so that we can put an end to the blatant disregard for infection control that goes on in many hospitals. The hospital where I was infected has finally stated to get tougher, but not tough enough. They won't do the nasal swab testing on patients or staff to check for colonization because they say that it costs too much, yet they can afford to put new flat screen TV's in each room. A few good lawsuits would motivate them to think otherwise.

Unfortunately for me, my statute is almost up. The attorney who looked at my case thought that it was a good one, but she dumped it at the last minute because she had too many other cases that were easier to take to trial. No other attorney will touch it now because of the time constraints. I am filing a document that will extend my statute for a year, but it is still doubtful that another attorney will take it. For all of you attorney's out there -- you can help stop this is you stop be so afraid.

Lee, thank you for your comment. I am sorry you had this terrible experience. Would you mind contacting me to discuss how we can prevent this on the future? My number is 870-425-6041

i am a victim and a surviver. i got infected while recovering in the hospital from emergency c-section with my baby. thru my surgical wound. i was discharged and the following days at home i thought i was just tired from just having my baby but the trhuth was my body was shutting down on me. i dont remember anything until i woke up in the icu room 1 1/2 month later. you want to know the feeling of being a new mom and not even knowing it because you was in a coma... or that you don't know where your at or why your there when you wake up; MRSA infected my internal organs. the infectuos discease team decided that i needed to filter out my blood.. so i received 12 pints of blood thru a transfusion... a lot huh?.. blood was donated luckly. i received 9 different surgeries in 7 days and because of those 7 surgeries including a full histerectomy and spleen removal, the wound care had to let me heal from the inside out without any staples or stitches, with sponge and suction.. gross!! but every bit true. the antibiotics they were first using was strong enough to kill it so they had to test and trial on me. after being discharged from the hospital from the infection i had to go back for a few more surgeried relating to this incident including incisional hernia surgery on my wound area on my belly. basically the only thing holding my intestines in is mesh that cannot be replace in the future because i don't have stmach muscle in certain areas to attacth the mesh to. so now i have an additional worry, to never ever rip it. please prey for me. by the way this happened when i was 22 years old with my first and only child. i did try to file suit against the hospital that this incident occurred in'' and i took it outside the area this hospital resided in because there are so many affiliations with lawyers for that hospital(its a big hospital)the lawyers i took it to werent to shabby they did there research sent my medicals records off to different specialists and surgeans for their reports and conclusions. it sounded like i had a pretty good case against the hospital but unfortunately for myself as well the lawyers stated that there was a breech in the medical records... what ever that means. that was back in 2000 when i was infected and my statutes are well gone. so what can i do ???? i have this medical issue in my life that still has to be looked after for my safety. all because of MRSA and the deadly after effects ... its not over when the antibiotics cures it... it can happen again and thats scary. so to the lawyers... please take a stand and help fight with and for the people you try so hard to protect.

Shanae,
Thank you for sharing your story. Your story is a reminder that we have to keep fighting to stop this killer. To think that there are thousands of people like you out there who have also had MRSA infections is enough to make caring people want to do something...do something now before another person goes through what you have. Thank you again for your comment.

So, just why is it that somebody somewhere has NOT started a massive class action suit against any and all hospitals who do NOT use the proven preventative measures to protect their patients from MRSA infections?
My father died from Hospital Acquired MRSA Pnuemonia. The hospital told us he contracted it in their hospital and they said it with a certain arrogance because they KNOW they are untouchable. Why is this?
I also believe that suits because of these preventable infections is what will make them pay attention and do something about it
I wrote a proposal for the State of Maine to stop preventable MRSA infections. Only a small part of it passed and I am fighting tooth and nail to get active detection and Isolation in all Maine Hospitals. It is proven and it works...and yet the infection "controllers" fight against it.
Lawyers need to step up on this...for the safety of all patients, including themselves!