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[igotthisguitar]

Dangerous Superbug Taking Off in Canada,
Moving Beyond High-Risk Groups
Tue Jun 27, 7:52 PM

By Helen Branswell

TORONTO (CP) - A dangerous strain of a superbug that can be caught outside hospital settings has moved beyond the boundaries of the high-risk groups it first plagued in Canada, causing illness in healthy adults and children in a number of provinces across the country, researchers reported Tuesday.

In a series of articles and commentaries rushed to print by the Canadian Medical Association Journal, they reported on the spread of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - known in the medical community as CA-MRSA.

The drug-resistant forms of the bug that are spreading in the community - strains labelled USA 300 and USA 400 - generally cause hard-to-treat skin and soft-tissue infections, weeping wounds that will not heal. But they can also occasionally cause severe illness and even death in previously healthy individuals.

"It's sweeping across the nation, no doubt about it," said Dr. John Conly, senior author of one of the papers and a leading researcher on the scope of Canada's problem with community-acquired MRSA.

"I think this is a pan-Canadian problem."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/27062006/2/xhealth-dangerous-superbug-taking-canada-moving-beyond-high-risk-groups.html

[laogaiguk]

This one bothers me. Everytime I call home or read the local newspaper I hear about the imminent superbug. School boards are making massive contingency plans, people are stocking up on non-perishibles (ala Y2K), etc etc. Soon, they will be teaching the children how to hide under the desks when they hear sirens of an incoming wave of this superbug. North American society (yes, even Canada, though less than our southern neighbours) would probably fall apart if it didn't have it's fear of the month (or year, or whatever).

[EFLtrainer]

Whole lotta you Canadians here in Korea. Forget birds, ban the Canadians or we're done for!!

[fiveeagles]

[igotthisguitar]