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An experimental vaccine designed to ward off
potentially deadly staph infections is showing promise in animal
studies.
That's good news. According to the Centers for Disease Control,
drug resistant super bugs kill thousands of people every year. Most
are patients who get infected while they are in the hospital!
It's a dangerous problem that is prompting germ crackdown campaigns
in medical centers across the country.
It's a lesson taught early on.
"Handwashing is a great way to prevent the transmission of
diseases!"
But these days, school isn't the only place promoting the ABC's of
good hand hygiene!
Purell and that was a good job
At Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, the halls
are monitored by the germ patrol!
"I go from basically floor to floor observing staff watching to see
if they're compliant with hand hygiene."
Sanitizers are stocked at every stop and catchy reminders are
posted on computers.
Presbyterian is among a growing number of medical institutions
pushing rigorous hand hygiene as a strategy to combat the growing
problem of hospital acquired infections.
"Infection can complicate their treatment, it can prolong their
hospitalization, it can put them at greater risk."
Clean hands can cut the infection risk, but according to recent
research handwashing compliance among hospital staff across the
country hovers around 50 percent.
It's hoped that hands on campaigns like this one will help reverse
that trend and reduce the number of patients who are infected by
bad bugs hiding on hands.
Hospitals in Canada and Europe are taking a more aggressive search
and destroy approach against the infection causing organisms.
Patients are routinely tested for the bacteria and those who test
positive are isolated.
The vaccine under study in mice at the University of Chicago
protecteted against multiple disease causing drug resistant staph
infections.
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
S. aureus, often referred to simply as "Staph," is common, found on
the skin and in the noses of an estimated 30 percent of people
worldwide. It is a frequent source of skin infections, which can
usually be treated without antibiotics, but it can also cause
serious surgical wound infections, bloodstream and bone infections,
or pneumonia. Physicians are particularly concerned about S. aureus
because of its ability to survive in the presence of antibiotics
designed to kill it. In 1972, according to the Centers for Disease
Control, only two percent of S. aureus infections were
drug-resistant. By 2004, 63 percent had learned to resist the
antibiotics commonly used to treat them.
Consumers Union: www.stophospitalinfections.org www.stophospitalinfections.org.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and
Epidemiology: www.preventinfection.org
States with Laws Requiring Public Reporting of Hospital Infection
Rates: Connecticut Florida Illinois Maryland Missouri New Hampshire
New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee
Virginia Vermont
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