tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066238290370557389.post6224578868325166225..comments2024-03-20T04:44:15.540-05:00Comments on Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention: Bedbugs and superbugs and bears, oh my!Dan Diekemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10231929371552334184noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066238290370557389.post-77765952508235441432011-05-13T19:28:04.238-05:002011-05-13T19:28:04.238-05:00Yes, please let the MRSA colonized live! I was ab...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? <br /> <br />http://thermalremediation.com/users/thermal_remediation/files/Battling%20Bed%20Bugs%20in%20the%20USA.pdf<br /><br />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.<br /><br /> 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. <br /><br />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<br /><br />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....Mommarazzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007217988599812661noreply@blogger.com