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  STONERS2 months, 3 weeks ago

  "The infection, Clostridium difficile, is found in the colon and can cause diarrhea and a more serious intestinal condition known as colitis. It is spread by spores in feces. But the spores are difficult to kill with most conventional household cleaners or antibacterial soap."

  "C-diff, as it's known, has grown resistant to certain antibiotics that work against other colon bacteria. The result: When patients take those antibiotics, competing bacteria die off and C-diff explodes."

  "This virulent strain of C-diff was rarely seen before 2000."

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    Dicax_Maximus2 months, 3 weeks ago

    STONE - Just ask the UK, their hospitals know ALL about it....

    Once upon a time, the UK's health system was held up as an ICON to ALL those wanting a workable health system...

    It is now a deadly joke... C-Diff, MRSA are just two of the benefits of the "NEW" UK NHS......

    Sad.....

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    jordan112 months, 3 weeks ago

    The CDC has no known recommendations for killing the spores. Using certain antibiotics which kill the good flora (that fights bad things) in the gut makes people more vulnerable. My 91 YO father entered the hospital with a UTI last month, they put him on antibiotics, & he contracted C-diff. The hospital missed the diagnosis and sent him home where he deteriorated, & had to be re-hospitalized with serious dehydration.

    The first line of defense is the hospitals handling of fecal material. Of course, patients have no idea whether they do that well or not.

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      lvrofwolves2 months, 3 weeks ago

      Scary when you risk coming out of a hospital sicker then when you went in.

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    y_soitenly2 months, 3 weeks ago

    STONERS,

    Re: "The infection, Clostridium difficile, is found in the colon and can cause diarrhea and a more serious intestinal condition known as colitis. It is spread by spores in feces.

    Hmmm! Sounds like they have a sh1tty situation going on...

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  texangelwings2 months, 3 weeks ago

  wow.....That is a lot of people getting this superbug! I visit people in the hospital and nursing homes often. I always wash my hands after I leave and try not to touch anything until I wash my hands.

  If it is in a form of a spore, I think it is also an airborne illness! Being around live cooped up chickens can cause a person to go blind, due to the spores released into the air, in a confined chicken coop. The spores enter the eyes, causing blindness.

  Thanks STONERS!

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  getreal12 months, 3 weeks ago

  One of My relatives that had colon cancer, gave me a grease storage jar. no matter how many times I wash that jar the smell of old bacon grease stayed in it. I let it sit as an ornament on top of the refrigerator and it sweated grease. How I don't know but it was squeaky clean when I put it up there. I finally threw it away. I bet that is where the cancer came from, the apartment was kept spotless.

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  Eagle_Eye2 months, 3 weeks ago

  DON'T EVER sit on a public toilet, don't touch the door with bare hands and use your foot to flush the toilet!!

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    jordan112 months, 3 weeks ago

    Yes mom! LOL, you took me back a few decades, EE.

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      Eagle_Eye2 months, 3 weeks ago

      LOL j, I remember my mother carefully putting toilet paper on the seat before we could use it. But now days you have to avoid the public toilets like the Plague since it is a bacterial cespool.

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        ChicaRica6142 months, 3 weeks ago

        I don't even sit on my house toilet anymore! HAHA!

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    y_soitenly2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Eagle Eye,

    Re: DON'T EVER sit on a public toilet, don't touch the door with bare hands and use your foot to flush the toilet!!

    Thank you Mommy!

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    xlegultx2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Carry an alcohol spray or something.

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      jordan112 months, 3 weeks ago

      That will help to kill some pathogens, but it may not kill this one. There is no known cleaning substance that kills it with certainty.

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  raza92 months, 3 weeks ago

  Hmmm, this super bug didn't appear until 2000. I wonder if GM foods had anything to contribute to this???

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  2sidestoeverything2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Stoners good and informative article thanks for the heads up and the submission.

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    lvrofwolves2 months, 3 weeks ago

    With the many things becoming resistant to antibiotics, it really concerns me that a more serious action isn't taken on the use of antibiotics in meat products, foods, and all the antibiotics flushed into our waters every day.

    And why don't hospitals/nursing homes etc.. insist that all visitors and workers wear masks, and make people use something on their hands when entering? so many things can be prevented, and I know people may not like having their visitors wearing those things, but it would be for the protection of everyone.

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      xlegultx2 months, 3 weeks ago

      Wearing the masks makes the inhabitants feel isolated or insulted. But thats just what people say.

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        lvrofwolves2 months, 3 weeks ago

        I know, and I can understand that, safety measures aren't always comfortable tho. Maybe small children wouldn't be able to understand that, but it's up to adults to protect them. People think hospitals are all sterile and clean and everyone concerned about a healthy environment, often that's not true. Like I worry sometimes about going to the Drs office around flu season, all those sick people sitting in the waiting room waiting to be seen, sick little ones running around touching everything, coughing sneezing all over the place, for people whose health is already compromised with an illness, well it's just not good.

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  tester2 months, 3 weeks ago

  such amazing and scary info makes me feel bad.

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  TheNewsseeker2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Why must every little cough or cold be cured with antibiotica?

  Most of the dangerous resistancies we are faced with now, would not exist, if we trusted in the power of our body to heal itself, as long as possible!

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  richtech2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Thanks Stoners. ... I noticed there's 2 sinks on this posting.

  Why in heaven's name would somebody sink this posting?

  There's some people other there that have no cares in the world.

  Just wait. Maybe they're the ones that are spreading this around.

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