MRSA: Few Isolations for Other Highly Dangerous, Contagious Diseases

Over the last decade, doctors had plenty of time to practice with other highly dangerous, contagious diseases to put protocols in place before Ebola arrived in this country.

Everyone seems to be ignoring that fact.  We could have been prepared had we acted with MRSA. The news media should be covering what history shows has not been done with MRSA and why it is a deadly virus that is still costing lives in the United States.

MRSA is a potentially deadly staph infection and thousands of people are dying every year in the United States as a result.  MRSA infections are often misdiagnosed by doctors as infected spider bites by a brown recluse.

MRSA Survivors says statistics show more people are dying every year in the United States from MRSA instead of AIDS/HIV.  Even worse, many of those MRSA cases go unreported to the CDC so there are estimates that possibly a million people each year are fighting a variety of MRSA infections.  I believe those estimates because MRSA is the story that won't go away.

With MRSA, many of those patients have been sent home either after misdiagnosis or sent home even AFTER diagnosis.  I've encountered many MRSA cases amongst the living and the dead while working in the funeral industry.  While it turns out some of those living people were isolated in hospitals after the funeral and after hundreds of people were potentially exposed, no one, not even anyone in their immediate family was ever quarantined.  The stories I've been told about MRSA are horrid and change lives even if someone survives.

Quarantine measures have not been in place in this country.  

Isolation measures are limited depending on the health of a MRSA patient.  

Doctors have been shrugging off MRSA for the last decade and sending patients home, just as the Texas Ebola patient Thomas Duncan was first sent home after first going to the ER.  

Now, it's affecting the economy because this country and its hospital staffs were ill-prepared.  The nurses union backs up the fact that they are not prepared with protocols, safer hazmat suits and gloves.  

Now that they're finally putting actual protocols in place with Ebola, it is time to do the same with MRSA.

Although, MRSA did not make the list for quarantine or isolation by presidential executive order. And I ask - why not?!  People are dying from MRSA.  It's spread from hospitals and medical settings into the community which is why we now have Community Associated MRSA.

A CDC Primer on Quarantine and Isolation - Planet Princeton

Here is the CDC Fact Sheet and it again makes you question why MRSA is not included in this group because it absolutely qualifies.

CDC Emergency Preparedness and You - Fact Sheet

What will it take for the government, the CDC, doctors and medical staff to realize that MRSA is a bigger problem in the United States than is Ebola, even though they are spread in the same way?