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    Nov 19, 2010, 07:43 AM
    Is MRSA an airborne illness?
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    Nov 19, 2010, 07:56 AM

    MRSA is a tactile bacteria, person to person contact. Normally contracted by people with weakened immune systems. In no way airborne.
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    Nov 19, 2010, 08:35 AM
    It is also spread by airborne means.

    Please visit this webpage for links (in the lefthand margin) to various studies that have been carried out http://www.e-co.uk.com/lnews.htm
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    Nov 19, 2010, 09:13 AM
    [QUOTE=sirhillary;2606548]It is also spread by airborne means.

    Please visit this webpage for links (in the lefthand margin) to various studies that have been carried out UVGI for HVAC Latest News - NDM-1, MRSA Airborne, C.Difficle, TB, XTR-TB, Influenza[/QUOTE

    You are mistaken. MRSA is a staph infection of the skin, sirhillary, and unless the nasal passage is touched, it is not transmitted to the respiratory system. MRSA is spread in hospitals by healthcare workers not being diligent in changing gloves patient to patient; or for that matter doctors not changing gloves patient to patient.

    You will have to hold up your post with better research data than the link you gave (other then in the UK) because that information and research has not been transmitted to medical information here in Canada.

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    Nov 19, 2010, 09:18 AM
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    MRSA is spread in hospitals by healthcare workers not being diligent in changing gloves patient to patient; or for that matter doctors not changing gloves patient to patient.
    That was in the "old" days. MRSA is now spread in schools and daycares as well.

    Heck, I got mine when I was still in college and never stepped foot in a hospital. Well, until I had to be hospitalized to treat it.
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    Nov 19, 2010, 09:20 AM

    This is interesting...

    Significance of airborne transmission of methicill... [Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001] - PubMed result
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    Nov 19, 2010, 09:36 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by J_9 View Post
    That was in the "old" days. MRSA is now spread in schools and daycares as well.

    Heck, I got mine when I was still in college and never stepped foot in a hospital. Well, until I had to be hospitalized to treat it.
    Yes, I remember you saying about college. Here in Ontario it is still warm and flu season. There is a virulent outbreak of MRSA and e coli in our Peterborough hospital at the moment, but not in the town where I live and have a state of art hospital. At least as far as I know. I have to use universal precautions with e coli clients.

    In a way I can see it being airborne where bedsheets are being pulled and thrown around, and I don't think beds are being carbolized as diligently as they used to be.


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    Nov 20, 2010, 01:59 AM

    If you read the research in my link you would see that MRSA has been found on "non touched" areas, there is only one way it has arrived there by airborne means. Please read the research papers listed in the left hand navigation pane on this webpage UVGI for HVAC Latest News - NDM-1, MRSA Airborne, C.Difficle, TB, XTR-TB, Influenza In addition how you account for the fact that in various case studies using UV technology positioned deep in the bowels of the hospitals ventilation system that MRSA rates have dropped by up by up to 40%?
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