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Old March 6th, 2008, 09:57 AM posted to uk.business.agriculture,uk.rec.fishing.game,uk.rec.fishing.coarse,comp.sys.acorn.apps,uk.rec.sailing
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Default MRSA - Screening all new inpatients

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:14:02 -0000, "Pat Gardiner"
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Pat's Note: This is fine, as far as it goes.

Although it should have been put in place years ago, as the Dutch did when
they first realised that pigs and pork workers were at high risk - and told
the world what they had found.

How many people died as a result of the SVS hiding up MRSA in Britain's
pigs?

It still won't be nationwide for more than two years, and it is clearly more
efficient to concentrate on high risk groups. In real life, it pays to know
all the facts.

In East Anglia it would be an entirely sensible question to ask: "What's
your job?" or "Do you handle pigs or pork?" Extra precautions can be taken
if the answer is "yes."

But it still does not solve the problem that the pigs are still sick with
MRSA. The source problem is still not being tackled. Disease will continue
to circulate and further mutations will occur.

The government are going to face massive claims from here and abroad.

They will be too big for the taxpayer to pay. They will have to prosecute
and confiscate land, savings and pensions from the culprits, package and
resell on the stock markets.

Shocked? Well, what do you suggest as a solution? Large scale landowning and
livestock farming is probably at an end in Britain. The taxpayer can't
continue to underwrite a disaster.

They have to test the pigs and now, not later. They have to tell the public
the results and explain the implications.

They have a duty to do so. It is not an optional extra.

The pigs obviously do have MRSA, otherwise they would have broadcast the
fact that they were clean, wouldn't they?


http://www.bexhillobserver.net/509/H...ned.3839062.jp


Hospital patients to be screened for MRSA

Most patients admitted for a planned operation are already being screened
for MRSA

EAST Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust will screen all new in-patients for MRSA
from April.

The Department of Health initiative requires health trusts to implement MRSA
screening of all in-patients by 2010.

MRSA is a bacteria that about 30 per cent of people carry on their skin or
in their nose.

Under normal conditions this bacteria can be carried harmlessly on the human
body. However, sometimes it can cause infections when the body's natural
defences are breached, for example wounds or surgical procedures.

Currently, most patients admitted for a planned operation are already being
screened for MRSA and provided with treatment before admission if found to
have MRSA.

In future all patients admitted as an emergency will also be screened for
MRSA, by taking a number of skin swabs.

If it is found, treatment will provided by the hospital. The aim is to
reduce the risk of MRSA infection by reducing the amount found on the
patients' skin. Deep-cleaning programmes for all wards and clinical areas
will be completed by March 31.

The trust runs Eastbourne District General Hospital, Uckfield Community
Hospital, the birthing unit at Crowborough and the Conquest Hospital at
Hastings.


The full article contains 202 words and appears in Sussex Express Series
newspaper.
Last Updated: 04 March 2008 9:05 AM



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