Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Bacteria spreads because of patients

The article "MRSA 'spread by patients moving between hospitals'" in the BBC News is interesting because hospitals should be clean places, but why the bacteria can spread between them.
According to the article, the bacteria spreads to other hospitals because patients who infect the bacteria from surgery in some hospitals move to other hospitals to cure, so the bacteria can be moved from a hospital to another hospital.
The article makes me have a question because the article don't give the backgound of the bacteria. I don't know how to infect it. Maybe breathe or get infective blood. My question is why patients are the most important carriers. Why not be hospital's staff? I think the staffs have more chance to infect it because they touch the equipment and patient's blood, and they also spend their time in the hospital more than patient do.
I think the article is interesting because if the research is real, it means that patients who are cured by surgery can easily infect the bacteria. I think the article affects to every hospital because many people will not take this risk and it makes everyone scare to go to hospital.


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References
MRSA 'spread by patients moving between hospitals'. (2010, January 12). BBC News. Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8445777.stm

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