MRSA and Flu

Hi All:

This is a follow up on the MRSA and Flu issue, especially with children. I feel that this is something that nobody should disregard. I have witnessed what MRSA could do to a human being once it gets into the bloodstream. Happened to my once strong and healthy husband - nearly killed him and it is a miracule that he survived this. Now he has to have flu shots as a preventative medicine.

This MRSA/Flu has claimed Carmeron Daiz's father according to People mag, also.

***News

Link in child flu deaths investigated

The Boston Globe
04/27/2008
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BOSTON
State and federal disease investigators are tracking a disturbing increase in deaths among children stricken simultaneously with the flu and a hard-to-treat, fast-moving bacterium.
Massachusetts health authorities have linked two recent childhood flu deaths to a germ called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, which evades the most common antibiotics. Nationally, of the 74 children known to have died from the flu in the United States in 2006-07, 22 also had staph infections, most of which were MRSA.
Authorities at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are so concerned by the phenomenon that next flu season they will activate a monitoring network to hunt for patients co-infected with flu and MRSA. Specialists said that data and other findings could guide doctors in preventing flu-MRSA cases from turning fatal.
Originally confined to hospital wards where it could find easy targets among the very ill, MRSA began migrating more broadly a decade ago, endangering otherwise healthy children and adults.
Scientists suspect that influenza is playing a deadly role in MRSA cases: The flu virus acts almost like a doorman for the bacterium, causing changes in the respiratory tract that allow the lethal germ to sneak in and start a devastating cascade of complications.

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