New Site: MRSAEpidemic.com

Despite the 2010 recent developments in the H1N1 sphere, a new specter has emerged that could prove more virulent and deadly than even H1N1 – The MRSA Epidemic. (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus).

From USNewsWire:

More Americans die annually from invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than from HIV/AIDS, H1N1 influenza and Parkinson’s disease, yet the United States and many other countries’ health officials continue to ignore the global crisis.

Due to MRSA’s most recent development, it’s move from hospital/acute-care environments to outside areas, most notably beaches, MRSA has come to the forefront for those concerned about their family’s exposure to potentially deadly epidemics, such as MRSA or H1N1.

USAToday reports:

A study by researchers at the University of Washington has for the first time identified methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) in marine water and beach sand from seven public beaches

For the most recent, up to date information about the MRSA epidemic, visit MRSAEpidemic.com.

Swine Flu Pandemic Strain Stil Mutating – Hope For Best Prepare For The Worst Virologists Say

As of June 2010, the H1N1 Swine Flu virus has moved from humans, back into pigs, where it began originally. Now prominent virologists are concerned that the strain that again emerges from the swine population will be so different from the 2009 strain, that we may again be faced with the dramatic, deadly pandemic level threat of last year.

From Wired Magazine

A new strain of swine flu shows that the pandemic version has jumped from humans back to pigs, where it’s evolving in new and unpredictable ways.[...]
“Hoping for the best while preparing for the worst seems a sensible strategy,” said University of Hong Kong virologist Malik Peiris. The strain is described June 18 in Science.

Yi Guan, a scientist who as instrumental in limiting the SARS oiutbreak as well as an outspoken critic of WHO’s handling of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, has clamied that further mutation, plus a reassortment with other strins, like the H5N1, which he claims is widespread everywhere but North America, would be “super nightmare for the whole world.”

When pressed further by sciencemag.org, Yi Guan is quoted as saying:

If that happens, I will retire immediately and lock myself in the P3 lab. H5N1 kills half the people it infects. Even if you inject yourself with a vaccine, it may be too late. Maybe in just a couple hours it takes your life.