A good news story about the VA Starts War on Bacterial Infection

[Monkeyman]

I been posting bad news about the VA its time for a good one huh

The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare Systems yesterday began an effort to help veterans hospitals around the nation eliminate infections from MRSA ,an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria.

Most MRSA infections are linked to health care facilities.

Preliminary data suggest that about (90,000) cases of serios MRSA infection occur in the US annually and that are associated with about (17,000) deaths

The VA is looking into how to fight and destory MRSA.

Let just hope Bush and Company don't find out or they will cut the funding Just being a smart ass on that one

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I'm not holding my breath on the VA

My dad gets more infections every time he's there and admitted...Ok, he's immuno-supressed, but it's gotten to the point where it's ridiculous...and not in a funny way...

[I_Make_Mistakes]

2. It's about friggin time! In 1991 and 92, I volunteered at a local

hospital after work, and the nurses were always talking about MRSA. I would ask about it, and this was their paraphrased reply (I should add I was on the Major Surgical Level 2 (older people)), it is very contagious, most nursing home patients have it and if you get it, it takes at a minimum 3 months to test negative, so to other nurses don't get tested. They said you will not be able to work at a Health Care facility for a long time). That scared the chit out of me, and after 2yrs. of 4 hrs. per week of volunteering, I was done!

To be quite sincere, since the vets medical treatment is (as it should be take care of for the most part), would it not make sense to hire the best and brightest to treat our vets and be the front runners in the medical arena, oh yeah, that is too logical for DC.