Looks to me like someone has dropped the ball here...and besides, why is it hospitals, office buildings, schools, etc don't have windows that OPEN anymore. You have the same ducts/vents spitting out air conditioning then the same ones pouring out heat when it gets cold. Think they get cleaned out yearly? Think again. Especially with all the germs in a hospital. I've been a nurse for years and this bug has been around for a very long time. We had windows that opened years ago. Aired things out. Now this bug has gone haywire and the numbers of people dying are staggering, yet every hospital, school and office building is sealed up tighter than a clams ass!
From the article:
"Unlike mumps or measles, MRSA cases need not be reported to public-health authorities....A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that the most severe infections caused by this bug kill more than 18,000 Americans a year — more than die of AIDS"
"Why aren't all hospitals screening incoming patients, as they do in other countries, and isolating and treating those carrying the bug so it doesn't spread? Why don't lawmakers require hospitals — and perhaps schools, nursing homes and prisons — to report cases to public-health agencies so they can help control it? What has the nation's top disease-control agency, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), been doing while the Staphylococcus aureus bug has grown so resistant to antibiotics?"
Full article here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2003958238_mrsa18m.html?syndication=rss