DAR AL HARB-U.K.: MRSA & PVL (HOSPITAL SUPERBUGS) SPREAD BY ALCOHOL FEARING MOSLEMS

Muslims 'refuse anti-MRSA gel' Cleansing ... (gel stops superbugs)
By JOHN TROUP
DECEMBER 29, 2006

SOME Muslims are undermining the battle to rid Britain’s hospitals of killer infections by refusing to wash their hands when visiting sick relatives.

Dispensers containing anti-bacterial gel have been placed outside wards at hospitals all over Britain in a bid to get rid of superbugs like MRSA and PVL.

It prevents people bringing in more infections. But some Muslims refuse to use the hand cleansers on religious grounds because they contain alcohol.

Health watchdogs are so concerned they intend to meet with NHS bosses in the New Year to try and hammer out a solution.

NHS care assistant Theresa Poupa, 46, became aware of the situation while visiting a sick cousin at the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green.

She said: “I could not believe it - the signs are large enough and clear enough but they just took no notice and walked straight onto the ward.

“I was there almost every day for three weeks and I saw it repeated dozens and dozens of times. When I raised the matter with the nursing staff they just shrugged and said that Muslims were refusing to use the gel because it contained alcohol.

“They said they couldn’t force visitors to use the gel and I understand that — but I was astonished that anyone who didn’t wash their hands was allowed onto a ward.

“I know the dangers that bugs like MRSA can cause. They kill hundreds of patients a year.”

Michael Summers, chairman of the Patients’ Association, said: “I have been made aware of this situation during discussions with nurses and it is a very serious state of affairs.”

Sun doctor Dr Carol Cooper, who practises in West London and works shifts in accident and emergency, said: “I practise in an area where the patients are largely Bangladeshi and some of them do object to washing their hands because of the alcohol. But it’s fantastically important.”

Murray Devine, head of safety at health watchdog the Healthcare Commission, said: “The solution should be ensuring Muslims have access to soap and water. There’s no substitute for good old fashioned soap and water.”

Honestly, who the hell cares if a few moslems become infected when the greater good will be perhaps hundreds if not thousands of infidels that will become infected and perhaps die...

ALL IS FAIR IN JIHAD & JIHAD...Ohhh and while the jihadists are at it, if not too many infidels die, we can at least force them to adopt Shari'ah approved behavior...See statements made by Murray Devine...

Ohh and lookie here, it appears the the MRSA SUPERBUG (PVL - Panton-Valentine Leukocidin - is a strain of the MRSA SUPERBUG if I am understanding things correctly) is quite capable of killing a person within hours of infection.


What is MRSA?!?

The organism Staphylococcus aureus is found on many individuals skin and seems to cause no major problems. However if it gets inside the body, for instance under the skin or into the lungs, it can cause important infections such as boils or pneumonia. Individuals who carry this organism are usually totally healthy, have no problems whatever and are considered simply to be carriers of the organism.

The term MRSA or methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus is used to describe those examples of this organism that are resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Methicillin was an antibiotic used many years ago to treat patients with Staphylococcus aureus infections. It is now no longer used except as a means of identifying this particular type of antibiotic resistance.

Individuals can become carriers of MRSA in the same way that they can become a carrier of ordinary Staphylococcus aureus which is by physical contact with the organism. If the organism is on the skin then it can be passed around by physical contact. If the organism is in the nose or is associated with the lungs rather than the skin then it may be passed around by droplet spread from the mouth and nose. We can find out if and where Staphylococcus aureus is located on a patient by taking various samples, sending them to the laboratory and growing the organism. Tests done on any Staphylococcus aureus grown from such specimens can then decide how sensitive the organisms is to antibiotics and if it is a methicillin resistant (MRSA) organism. These test usually take 2-3 days.

and:

MRSA:

MRSA may also be known as oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, while non-methicillin resistant strains of S. aureus are sometimes called methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) if an explicit distinction must be made.

Although MRSA has traditionally been seen as a hospital-associated infection, there is currently an epidemic of community-acquired MRSA in the USA. The abbreviations CA-MRSA (community-associated MRSA) and HA-MRSA (hospital-associated MRSA) are now commonly seen in medical literature.

and:

Mortality

Although Noskin and others report that a patient infected with MRSA is five times more likely to die than other patients; it is not clear that patients who are infected with MRSA have an increased death rate. Wyllie et al. report a death rate of 34% within 30 days among patients infected with MRSA, while among MSSA patients the death rate was similar at 27%.

Not bad, not bad at all...What an interesting Weapon of Mass Destruction and so easily put to good use by the ummah to destroy the infidel...

Ohhh and take another lookie at the MORE VIRULENT STRAIN OF MRSA, PVL:

Panton-Valentine leukocidin

Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a cytotoxin that causes leukocyte destruction, pneumonia and necrotizing fasciitis. PVL is produced from the genetic material of a phage which infects Staphylococcus aureus, making it more virulent. (Lina, et al, 1999) It has played a role in outbreaks of fatal bacterial infections.(Hawkes, 2006)


Pertinent Links:

1) Muslims 'refuse anti-MRSA gel'

2) What is MRSA?!?

3) MRSA & MRSA Mortality

4) Panton-Valentine leukocidin