Yes, they've done a fantastic job.
MRSA lives very happily on healthy people's skin, it's easily spread and resistant to various treatments.
It's very difficult to stop it getting around.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:23, archived)

Aye
right after all the undercover news reports about people slacking off.

Either way, we have to put our trust in these people; but NHS Direct are telling people with flu-like symptoms to go to a+e.*

*Three people I know have been sent to A+E
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:28, archived)

a friend of ours was actually isolated after displaying 'flu-like symptoms,
but it turned out he didn't have it.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:29, archived)

hand hygene and proper cleaning help to stop it spreading
but between 3 and 7% of people have it and dont know
they then go out into the community and spread it about
It's not just a hospital problem
(MRSA that is)
( Giant bunny jumping out like a large happy tourettes rabbit, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:31, archived)

Actually, much of the news coverage was based on a single bloke running a lab out of his back garden.
All the positive tests for MRSA from things like doorhandles, windowsills etc came from his lab, and couldn't be replicated in real labs.
This isn't to say it's not a real issue, which does kill people and is dealt with seriously, but much of the media circus was based on a single phoney.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:31, archived)

Ah, that's interesting, I din't know that
I was saying a similar argument with the report 11 years ago with autism being caused by mercury, and how (as far as I know, more might have been released) nobody could replicate this, and how the only girl who got compo was the girl with the mitochondrial disorder.

Got to love the media.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:35, archived)

This probably explains it better than I did.
www.badscience.net/2005/11/how-many-microbiologists-does-it-take-to-change-a-tabloid-story/
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:43, archived)