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...Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus This is a deadly emerging pathogen usually associated with hospitals. Recently it has started showing up in house pets and horses...
...campylobacteriosis These illnesses, caused by bacteria in the feces of infected dogs, cats, birds, farm animals and reptiles, can cause diarrhea, nausea and abdominal cramping. Ringworm These are round, crusty skin lesions caused by a fungus that can spread via touch from cats or dogs. Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus This is a deadly emerging pathogen usually associated with hospitals. Recently it has started showing up in house pets and horses. How can you protect yourself? Adhere to a regular schedule of veterinary visits and vaccinations. Wash your hands after handling pets, and get immediate treatment for any parasites that show...
MULTI-DRUG-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS This is a deadly emerging pathogen usually associated with hospitals. Recently it has started showing up in house pets and horses...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Plasmodium falciparum. Staphylococcus aureus. Streptococcus pneumoniae. Enterococcus faecium. Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The list of microbial scourges that have developed immunity to one or more of the drugs used to treat them is growing ever longer, and in a number of cases physicians are running out of options. In U.S. hospitals, more than 20% of all enterococcus infections, which include infections of the gastrointestinal tract, heart valve and blood, are now resistant to vancomycin, for many years the antibiotic of last resort. Even more worrisome, insensitivity to vancomycin--which nurses and physicians in intensive-care units refer...
...probably caused by the overuse of the wonder drug. According to figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, more than 200 people in Minnesota and North Dakota have become ill - and four have died - after contracting a lethal strain of the staph germ known as staphylococcus aureus. Most disturbingly, the mutated germ apparently came not from the hothouse environment of hospitals - where it is common but considered manageable - but from somewhere outside...