Combine superbugs and bedbugs and what do you get? At least one publication, and a lot of media attention, that’s what. I was trying my hardest to ignore this story, but our stat counter shows that we now have a sizable readership—how can I let them down? My solution to this problem: we should try to destroy bedbugs wherever we find them (oh, we’re already doing that? OK). As for the over 4 million people in the U.S. who carry MRSA in their noses, let's let them live.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Bedbugs and superbugs and bears, oh my!
Combine superbugs and bedbugs and what do you get? At least one publication, and a lot of media attention, that’s what. I was trying my hardest to ignore this story, but our stat counter shows that we now have a sizable readership—how can I let them down? My solution to this problem: we should try to destroy bedbugs wherever we find them (oh, we’re already doing that? OK). As for the over 4 million people in the U.S. who carry MRSA in their noses, let's let them live.
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Yes, please let the MRSA colonized live! I was about to comment on the fact that bedbugs don't spread disease, and then I did a google search. MRSA??? The idea of MRSA carrying bedbugs is interesting (dance across the floor and out of the room interesting), but are people just misinterpreting the symptoms of CA-MRSA USA 300's propensity for skin and soft tissue infections that look like "bug bites", or do you three really think they could transmit as a vector?
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We had the interesting experience of staying in a hotel room 2 years ago in France, where our two sons created the "catch a bug" game, filling a baggie half full before we presented to the night desk clerk, in exchange for taking our suitcases out of the bathtub and into a new room.
Sooo, thinking bedbugs were a simple problem, like scabies or head lice, did a Google search, thankfully while still in France --- quickly found out not the case.
Thanks to Rick Steves and his washable, dryable suitcases right along with all the clothes in the nice laundrymat in Aix-en-Provence, then home and into to black plastic garbage bags on the deck in July for 1 week. Thankfully no hitchhikers
Actually, except for an announcement about the APIC webinar for Bedbugs in Long Term Care, and your blog, I did not realize that there was that much media attention- people do need to be aware they are not as "easy" to get rid of as other little critters we deal with in schools and healthcare, like scabies and head-lice. On that note, I will go check the edges of my mattress....