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which countries hospitals have the most mrsa?

anyone know?

http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch...als/index.html

MRSA in Eire - not enough being done

Link: MRSA - not enough being done.

The vast majority of people believe that not enough is being done to tackle the spread of MRSA in Irish hospitals, according to the results of a new poll by irishhealth.com. MRSA, also known as the hospital super bug, is a strain of bacteria that is resistant to some of the most powerful antibiotics available. It thrives in hospitals where people are in close proximity and may have their defences weakened by illness. A recent survey by the Irish Patients Association revealed that in 2003, Ireland recorded the highest number of MRSA cases in Europe.

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Since then it has spread across the United States, Australia, Canada and parts of Europe, including Scandinavian countries which have been almost free of hospital-acquired MRSA.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...8/ai_n21074545

[Curious]

ty clouds.

it's scary that they have found it in schools.

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Those studies done to date in Europe and Canada on MRSA give some credence to the involvement of livestock in MRSA's mutation. Hospitals in the Netherlands, for example, have had fantastic success at controlling MRSA. They employ a "search and destroy" policy, using aggressive screening, strict infection-control procedures, and severe restrictions on the quantity of antibiotics dispensed. They have managed to keep MRSA rates far below those in the rest of Europe. Dutch rates are so low, in fact, that Dutch hospitals list a previous visit to a foreign hospital as an MRSA risk factor.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/07/staph/

[greta]

I learned at a meeting last week that MRSA now kills more people around the world, than AIDS.

[Tootsie]

MRSA has been around for a long time now. My mom had it, acquired during her hospital stay.

IT's difficult to get a good feel for who has more since you have to figure that all countries do not provide information, nor do all hospitals or other health care facilities.

Personally, I think they try to keep that information under their hats. Same with bedsores. Aides will actually not report them and hospitals often send people back to facilities like nursing homes with active bedsores.

Disgusting situation.

Tootsie