‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll

Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by fernly on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:30AM (#12444201)

The question that comes to my mind is, are the European countries doing any better in tracking MRSA, etc. infections? They certainly exist. One might hope a more centralized health-care system, not balkanized like the USA one[1], would keep better records. Do they?

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by okket on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:14PM (#12444580)

The Dutch have a MRSA strategy they call "Search and Destroy" with harsh quarantine regulations for non-native patients.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/combating-deadly...

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by jkot on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:25PM (#12444663)

I think 'balkanized' is good word to describe some health-care systems in Europe.

However I think there is a basic difference in approach. Hospitals in europe are usually uber clean, everything is desinfected and there is a small army of cleaners. My impression from US is that McDonnald was cleaner than hospital.

Second difference is post-operation treatment. People in weakened state are left in hospital for a few days for monitoring. With broken immune system (after chemotherapy) you get into strict hermetic isolation. In US leukemia patients go to hotel after treatments.

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by waqf on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:24PM (#12448443)

> My impression from US is that McDonnald was cleaner than hospital.

I'm really interested in this. Where were you? Because my impression of the US is that they are very thorough on the small stuff … because they can pass the bill on to someone for taking precautions, whereas they can be sued for not taking them.

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by ams6110 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:58PM (#12449395)

There's a reason that people get these resistant infections mostly in hospitals.

Really, unless the alternative is death anyway, you're pretty well advised to stay away from hospitals.

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by gtufano on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:02PM (#12444477)

Records are kept at European Antimicrobial Surveillance System (EARSS) or so it seems, at least. Last report (with freely downloadable raw data) I found (2014) is here: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/_layouts/forms/Publica...

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by anexprogrammer on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:43AM (#12451033)

UK NHS MRSA infections are reported weekly online on data.gov.uk

Patients are screened for MRSA if they are being admitted for surgery, cancer and a number of other risk groups, or have had MRSA previously.

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