2 Patients Die, 7 Infected After Being Exposed To Deadly Superbug Bacteria At UCLA

[SportsGuy41017]

.....Medical Center.

 

So, shall we close off the borders to SoCal? No one in and no one out?

 

"At least two patients have died and seven more have been infected after being exposed to a drug-resistant superbug bacteria at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center.

 

More than 100 other patients may have been exposed to the carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, bacteria, according to a hospital statement. Officials say they’re trying to notify those people.

 

There are reports the bacteria can be deadly for as much as 50 percent of patients exposed."

 

 

2 Patients Die, 7 Infected After Being Exposed To Superbug Bacteria At UCLA Medical Center « CBS Los Angeles

[mcpapa]

[Jim Schue]

I'm feeling a Hanta virus scare.

[mcpapa]

Years ago I listened to an infectious disease expert explain how he would carry out terrorism.

 

Infect a few people with something horrible and have them bounce around from airport to airport as long as they were able to travel.

[B-Ball-fan]

I have first hand knowledge of this kind of crap as today marks the 11th week that I've been dealing with a UTI that is called "Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase" or ESBL, or otherwise known as E Coli that I received in the hospital during my colon cancer surgery on Dec. 4th that was introduced to me through the catheter.

 

There is only one oral antibiotic that can fight this superbug, and although it helps to keep my symptoms at bay, it has not eradicated it, and I have yet to be given any hopes or answers to how in the world I can get rid of it.

 

They're now saying that I may have to be on a low dose of the antibiotic indefinitely with the hopes that just maybe my own immunity system can kill it.

 

The colon cancer surgery that I've recovered from wonderfully where they got the cancer in stage 1 had undoubtedly weakened my immunity system to initially allow this bug to stay active within me. Being on antibiotics non-stop my immunities have not had the benefit of strengthening as they normally would because long term antibiotic usage weakens one's immunity system. (See the Catch 22?).

 

I've now had further testing (C-Scan & Cystoscopy) to rule out whether or not the bug is hanging around my kidneys and bladder.

 

I initially was being responsible with my health by having a colonoscopy at age 50 whereby I was immediately ordered to have surgery to remove the cancer that they found.

 

If not for the "bonus superbug" the hospital gave to me as a special gift, I would have done perfectly well and would have swimmingly been on the road to recovery, however now because of my visit to the hospital that one early December day, I am now dealing with a life threatening superbug UTI that keeps me wondering how it will all end. I was an otherwise healthy 50 year old with not many serious things wrong with me that couldn't be managed, but now through this whole experience the most troubling medical problem that I am dealing with was caused by the hospital and something that I did not sign up for.

 

Since dealing with this, I have been told by many that this is far too common and they've heard of numerous horror stories of others dealing with the same thing.

 

Want to get sick people???

 

The hospital is one surefire way of ensuring that you will.