Superbug Sighting

They call it the "Health Club Superbug," a disease that used to be found only in hospitals and clinics where all non-resistant bacteria were wiped out. But not anymore, of one note is a 28-year-old woman who died of advanced pneumonia from MRSA that was otherwise healthy and not hospitalized recently at all. Now it's spreading, especially amongst young and otherwise healthy adults in common changing areas and other communal areas(gyms and health clubs an obvious example). The name for it is MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. It used to be concentrated in the elderly, but hospital deaths from it have doubled in the UK in the past year. In the US, it has begun to spread like wildfire amongst prison populations and is also appearing in athletic facilities.

This is yet another example of how much we're reaping what we sowed with antibiotics. MRSA can be killed by non-typical antibiotics, but eventually the artificial selection-based microevolution caused by antibiotics will truly start producing bugs that nothing can wipe out. Hospitals and facilities are starting to crack down on overuse of antibiotics, but we still see constant proliferation of antibiotic soaps everywhere that cause the same things. Soap and hot water kills most diseases, by splashing antibiotics into all of our hand soaps and wipes we're simply adding to the danger of producing more of these superbugs, and having them get to the point where they chop down even the youngest and healthiest with advanced pneumonia.