30% go into contact isolation just as soon as they walk into the door..... meaning what we put into contact isolation is the same thing you sit next to on the bus.

If your in prison, add VRE to the list.

Are you looking for pictures or becoming scared of how prevalent highly infectious diseases are?

That'd be one hell of an account to have! But, no - most my work is done at local Universities and Biotech - like UAB (which is huge research) and Southern Research. I do go MSU and Huntsville regularily, and some hospitals doing NIST calibrations on bone/tissue freezers and blood banking units to keep Joint Commision off their backs.

C. Diff - man - NEVER will forget culturing those plates out - just like days old roadkill that's been baking in 100F sun. Clostridia = stench from hell

I would never have thought MRSA was that widespread, that stuff is pretty dangerous right? What does it take for a person to go from being a carrier to being sick? I take it most come in for something else and y'all find that they are a carrier.

I had to collect and take a sample to lab last night.... :barf:

Its more of an opportunistic infection.... It LOVES sterile tissue!

So what's the "walking-dead" have to do with the Ebola virus?

Should I prepare myself for a zombie epidemic? lol

No I wouldn't worry about it, there are viruses that are both real and could turn into epidemics, not unlike the Spanish Flu Black Plague, or H5N1. I was watching "The Walking Dead", which is a TV show, and part of the episode was centered on the CDC doctor who was trying to learn about the disease that caused people to quickly die and then for their brain stem to be reactivated. This reignited my interest in the more deadly diseases, and the Ebola virus is a very deadly and particularly interesting disease because of its mortality rate and how breakouts seem to happen and then go away very quickly making it hard to trace. :party:

They are usually as virulent as normal s.aureus.
That means asymptomatic carriers are common, and that you can cure yourself over time. However, it gets complicated if you get it in a wound infection, or if you infect some poor immunodeficient patient (who can then get sepsis, lung abcess or something similar not-so-very-fun).

A multiresistant streptococcus group A would also be a beast, why that hasn't happened yet is a real mystery.

Oh yeah. Shearhead, check out nodding disease. Thats some wierd stuff.

I'm never leaving my house again.

I read about that.

Its too bad there isn't more funding for these things, someday we could really benefit from gaining a greater understanding of infectious disease

I wish I could: :inout:

Unfortunetly it's one of the things I'm allowed to do. Scrap poop up with a Popsicle stick.

You need to get into the nursing program. I am allowed to do anything but call doctors, do ART lines, or write TO orders. I personally refuse removing PICC lines and ignore nurses who say I "can do" trach care.

If you guys want to see sick, do trach care.... But don't stand in front of it, especially when they cough. They'll shoot wads out they will go across the room and stick to the wall....

I love TWD, but in that Zombie sense, it's biologically impossible - dead cells don't work. IF some zombie outbreak where to happen, it'd be more along the lines of I Am Legend - but the zombies would still die in the end if cells got no nutrition+fluid - whether it be from blood or whatever. I could see some horrifically mutated strand of Bovine spongiform encephalitis (mad cow) or the human form Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, there's also Rabies (Lyssavirus) - trust me, I still use wiki-pedia, me ain't as smart as I was. Reason is, because these can have LONG incubation periods before symptoms develop, which then may be too late for the victim... IF transmission were to go aerosol, man, we'd be having a problem!

I this is a good quote regarding Mad Cow from emedicinehealth.com... Prions are the brain-attacking protiens that causes Mad Cow.

Fun detail. Alcohol doesn't get rid of prions. Neither does normal autoclaves.
No problem for surgical equipment washers nowadays though.
This is fun, what are we gonna be scared of next?
Seriously though, just watch out for the resistant gonococci, hear they are common on the other side of the pond ;)

....---- that.

I am now paranoid.

Here are some really cool books mildly related to this topic:

Parasite Rex:

Survival of the Sickest:

I probably wouldn't read the first one because I'm thsuper thsared of thspidersss :noes:

And heights.

And whirlpools.

Nothing to do with spiders, everything to do with MUCH MORE DISGUSTING STUFF like this PARASITE THAT LIVES IN YOUR EYE:

THE EYEWORM!!!

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