MRSA and Other Superbugs Threaten Health
Feb
22
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2/22/2009
Normally, our immune systems protect us against infection and help us become resistant to disease. Today, with the overuse of antibiotics, including antibacterial cleansers, our immune system can't keep up.
Even though life threatening methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have been reduced in hospitals, a bigger threat of infection with community acquired MRSA infections and antibiotic resistant gram negative infections continue to threaten health. Proper hand washing with soap and hot water turned infections around in the hospital setting. Let this simple technique work for you.
Infections are a known autoimmune disease trigger, and certain infections, including Staph and Salmonella infections can cause a reactive form of arthritis to occur decades later.