Blog Archive for September, 2010
Sexuality Tips & Facts : Cures for Gonorrhea
The importance of getting and taking medicine for gonorrhea is discussed by a healthcare professional. Listen in on these facts about your health.
Sexuality Tips & Facts : Cures for Gonorrhea
The cure for gonorrhea is a full course of antibiotics prescribed by a medical doctor, and taking the full course of medicine can prevent resurfacing of the disease and increased resistance to treatment. Get immediate treatment for gonorrhea with advice from a human sexuality counselor in this free video on sexual health.
Gonorrhea is becoming resistant to treatments and approaching super bug status
Gonorrhea; Gone today; back tomorrow
PREVENTION! This is the only way to decrease the number of infected people with gonorrhea. Do what you can as an individual and help learn, prevent, and most significantly in your line of work, teach others the importance of prevention. Read more on how to prevent gonorrhea.
Gonorrhea Overview
Gonorrhea is a curable sexually transmitted disease (STD), second only to chlamydia as the most frequently reported STD in the U.S. Chlamydia infections are caused by bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis and gonococcal infections are caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Gonorrhea; Gone today, back tomorrow
“Gonorrhea is a very common infectious disease. CDC estimates that more than 700,000 persons in the U.S. get new gonorrheal infections each year.” With numbers this high, you have a great chance of coming into contact with a person who has gonorrhea! Are you protected? Read more on the facts and statistics.
Gonorrhea - CDC Fact Sheet
What is gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Gonorrhea is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a bacterium that can grow and multiply easily in the warm, moist areas of the reproductive tract, including the cervix (opening to the womb), uterus (womb), and fallopian tubes (egg canals) in women, and in the urethra (urine canal) in women and men. The bacterium can also grow in the mouth, throat, eyes, and anus.
MRSA and VRE in the nursing home
Play a role in learning how to stop the spread of disease and illness. Here is one man’s opinion on how to effectively contain the spread of VRE and MRSA with limited resources. Please share your thoughts and comments with us after reading the article,
MRSA and VRE in the nursing home
A plastic surgeon recently visited our VA long-term care nursing home (no IV services or respirators) to see, in consultation, a resident with a pressure ulcer on the leg that was colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The resident, who was alert and mobile in a wheel chair, was in a two-bed room and took his meals in the common dining room. He also took part in the daily social group activities of the nursing home. The pressure ulcer was kept covered with a dressing.
Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Copper Reduces MRSA & VRE in Hospital Rooms
Copper is the answer…to stop the spread of VRE? It’s true, learn more about this unbelievable fact…
Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Copper Reduces MRSA & VRE in Hospital Rooms
Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Copper Reduces MRSA & VRE in Hospital Rooms ICU trial touch surfaces show less contamination.
Antibiotic-resistant infection hits 100 at HSC; No patient ill from outbreak, officials report
“Of the 1,100 patients screened for VRE, 129 tested positive.” It may be a small percent, but it can be a deadly statistic. Learn more on this outbreak, and find out how this hospital had to deal with a VRE outbreak.
Antibiotic-resistant infection hits 100 at HSC; No patient ill from outbreak, officials report
MORE than 100 patients have tested positive for an antibiotic-resistant infection from an ongoing outbreak at Health Sciences Centre that has spanned more than six months. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority officials first detected an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) on Feb. 3. VRE are antibiotic-resistant germs that live in people’s bowels and can cause urinary tract infections and abscesses.
Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of VRE
Play your role in protection. Don’t let VRE spread any further than it already has. Here is how to help prevent further outbreaks.
Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of VRE
Since 1989, a rapid increase in the incidence of infection and colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has been reported by U.S. hospitals. This increase poses important problems, including a) the lack of available antimicrobial therapy for VRE infections, because most VRE are also resistant to drugs previously used to treat such infections (e.g., aminoglycosides and ampicillin), and b) the possibility that the vancomycin-resistant genes present in VRE can be transferred to other gram-positive microorganisms (e.g., Staphylococcus aureus).
Frequently Asked Questions; Information for the public about VRE
“Enterococci are bacteria that are normally present in the human intestines and in the female genital tract and are often found in the environment. These bacteria can sometimes cause infections.” VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci) is becoming more common as a communicable illness. Get all that you need to know, from the people that know it best.
Frequently Asked Questions; Information for the public about VRE
What is VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci)?
Enterococci are bacteria that are normally present in the human intestines and in the female genital tract and are often found in the environment. These bacteria can sometimes cause infections. Vancomycin is an antibiotic that is often used to treat infections caused by enterococci. In some cases, enterococci have become resistant to vancomycin and are called vancomycin-resistant enterococci or VRE. Most VRE infections occur in people in hospitals.
Health workers at high risk for E.coli
Healthcare workers may be in danger when in contact with ill patients. Don’t become a patient yourself. Read more on how this multi-drug resistant bacterium, known as E. Coli, is becoming more and more of a trheat to nurses and doctors.
Health workers at high risk for E.coli
The patients were all doctors and all became gravely ill after undergoing routine prostate biopsies last year, infected by a powerful super bug that caused delirium, fever and irregular heart beats. One of them eventually died.