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All the good stuff’s showing up in the news these days - MRSA attacking school children, amoebas that eat your brain and you can’t do anything to stop them, Mexicans with TB, West Nile…Salmonella in pot pies! Adenovirus gone worse.

Do you guys…wanna talk about this stuff? It’s pretty exciting. Better than a carved pumpkin, I say, and, unlike a carved pumpkin, these things will be with us for years and years and years.

Bird flu has it rough these days. It’s tough to compete with brain-eating amoeba. People don’t really connect with “dead Indonesian boy” as they do with “Banquet pot pie.”

MRSA seems to be the super star. If there were an Academy Awards show for infectious disease, I’d be putting my money on MRSA.

Let’s take a look!

MRSA infection
CDC/ Bruno Coignard, M.D.; Jeff Hageman, M.H.S.

And here’s the close-up:

MRSA
Credit: Janice Carr
CDC/ Jim Biddle

Don’t you just love the holidays? I wonder what we’ll be having for Thanksgiving…


Posted in General on October 19th, 2007

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