http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2212762,00.htmlPseudomonas infection is resistant to hospital cleaning - and antibiotics are proving ineffective
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Cleaning agents that hospitals rely on to kill bacteria are proving inadequate, while most antibiotics that usually help patients repel infections are ineffective. It often contaminates water and moisture, so is a particular problem in breathing equipment, intravenous lines and catheters. One child cancer patient caught it when his lips were sprinkled with holy water at a Leeds hospital.
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There are no official statistics on the number of deaths from Pseudomonas, but Professor Mark Enright, an expert on healthcare-acquired infections at Imperial College London, estimates that it kills 'at least hundreds a year', especially those who get blood poisoning as a result. Previous studies have shown that those who develop septicaemia related to Pseudomonas have only a 20 per cent chance of survival.
People who have had surgery, who are on a ventilator in an intensive care unit or who have a condition such as cancer or HIV that reduces their body's immunity, are especially vulnerable. Some who have had it but survived have lost a limb, gone blind in one eye or suffered some other lasting damage to their body.
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Rawson said: 'It's good that cases of MRSA are decreasing. But it's a complete nonsense if other deadly bacteria such as Pseudomonas are being allowed to affect more and more people.' She called on the reporting of Pseudomonas to be made mandatory for hospitals in order for the true scale of the problem to emerge.
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you know that if it is in the UK it is here too. cripe.
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