Untreatable Virus Spreading to General Public From Hospitals, Prisons

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a deadly form of MRSA had sprung from nowhere, picking off otherwise healthy people. The cases thrust Iqbal and his colleagues to the front lines of modern medicine''s struggle against antibiotic resistant bacteria – perhaps the nation's most daunting public health threat. No drug-defying bug has proved more persistent than MRSA, none has caused more frustration and none has spread more widely. In recent years, new MRSA strains have emerged to strike in community settings, reaching far beyond hospitals to infect schoolchildren, soldiers, prison inmates, even NFL players.
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in the '90s, new "community-associated" strains began showing up in people who'd had no contact with the medical system – and the MRSA problem got far more complicated.
"We don't really understand the origin of these strains," says Costi Sifri, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Virginia Health System. "And we don't really know how to contain them."
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hospitals are not required to report individual MRSA cases. So there was no way to tell what they were dealing with.

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Dangerous MRSA bacteria expand into communities
Peter Eisler

USATODAY 

6:16 p.m. EST December 16, 2013

Drug Resistant Infections Have Arrived In The US

According to the Center For Disease Control as reported in this documentary, 2 million  people are infected with drug resistant bacteria each year. An estimated 23,000 die each year from the same drug resistant bacteria. This feature is instructive for any and all people who may be treated in hospitals and or may exposed themselves unknowingly to the bacteria. 

AIR DATE: Oct. 22, 2013
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Has the age of antibiotics come to an end? New strains of bacteria are on the rise, landing normally healthy people in the hospital with life-threatening, drug-resistant infections. Ray Suarez talks to David Hoffman, the journalist who led the investigation for Frontline's "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria."