Re: Flesh Eating Bug Increases in The U.S.-PHOTOS & UPDATES
You've hit a touchy subject with me, without really knowing it.
The subject is but isn't about the virus that eats flesh.
First off, in the US, we are near third world country conditions in what our medical care can do and does. Because of the cost of medical treatment in the US, the US is the very most expensive health care nation in the world. Yet for the cost which amounts to nearly double the next expensive health care country (Switzerland) we are not getting what we pay for.
The overall measures used to average out differences between countries medical effectiveness usually uses life expectancy and infant mortality rate as a yard stick to measure how good a medical treatment is provided by a country. In the year 2000, the WHO made a measure of this effectiveness and the US came in world ranked at 37ᵗʰ. In the following years this has not become better.
In a very recent news article in the last few days that came out, I have not been able to relocate, the US was rated 50ᵗʰ in the world, putting it on par with third world countries. In otherwords, we are going backwards, with ever more expensive treatment while getting less and less for the money.
Now we get into where this ties back to the virus.
US hospitals have become a hot bed for superbugs. The constant clean up with anti-bacterial scrubs without killing all the bugs, have left these places as sources for the very worst infections. Along with a staph bug that seems to catch the majority in the hospital is also this virus flesh eating bug. It first showed up in a hospital. If you want to get sick, go to a hospital. What you may have had to get you there may not have been deadly but what you catch there is likely to have no cure or a very expensive one the hospital will not own up to being the host of.
Notice that one of the victims was in the water. This is likely that bug came from cow/chicken/livestock farm run off that is poisoning our water supplies. There are many rivers and streams today that it is not a good idea to swim in and many of those same carry EPA warnings not to do so. All streams and rivers eventually show up in the ocean. Meaning that these same bacteria and infections will go into the ocean. Now the good news in that is that most bacteria need some sort of even temperature to survive and don't do too well in salt water. The bad in this is that these bugs mutate. (think the Andromeda Strain) It's the reason that these bugs have developed immunity to antiseptics and antibiotics. Both over use and under use tend to make new bugs immune. Overuse kills them dead for quite a while but sooner or later one makes it out alive and develops immunity. Under use exposes the bugs to what kills them but leaves many alive in weakened state where eventually they too develop immunity.
On the whole as things go, the medical community is coming up short.
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