MRSA, C Diff and Swine Flu

Author: russell jones

The words Swine Flu have become boring. Turn on the TV and it is there on all the news channels, open a newspaper and the column inches are thick. There can be no doubting the seriousness of the disease but would it be fair to assume we are in over kill mode?

The concern for the professionals is always the migration of virus from animal to man, understandably so.

The way bacteria mutate makes control difficult if not impossible, this though is always the case. The worry for you and I is that our scientists identify something that spreads like wild-fire and has no know cure, sounds like a scene from a Hollywood block buster, Outbreak anyone?

In reality the reverse is often true. A silent, almost under the radar killer that suffers very little media attention and as such goes about its work in a quiet but deadly fashion. Perhaps fashion is the operative word here.

The hyped up nature of the pandemic, from a pig or bird to to your next door neighbour in one swift swoop, or worse to you. This news is hot, it can't fail to sell to the masses and the media are ready to deliver. You can visulise the editors looking for that many angles the very thought makes you dizzy, or is that a symptom, now I am starting to worry. The beads of sweat that I once blamed on looking for jobs in the classifieds have turned into the high temperature virus fight between my confused body and this retched Swine Flu.

Perhaps the cynic in me says this is just the good news day that the world has been waiting for a year for. Tired of the Middle East Syndrome, straining at the credit crunch and American Presidential matters, the one piece of fresh news that effects us all, so they say, is a damn good health scare.

So what of the origins of this Swine Flu? Mexico, but thousands of people suffer at the hands of flu anyway what makes this strain different than the rest? It would be glib to ignore the real issues here.

And these are that a Pandemic is always a possiblity, the killer disease, organism, virus, whaterver, transcending the barrier between animal and man and spreading at such a rate that within years, months weeks or days we have suffered such fatalities that selling newspapers would become pointless. Oh you cynic.

There are far more pressing issues facing us today and tomorrow. Global warming, tugs at the heart strings of those environmentalists amongst us but has failed to ignite the masses yet, more work needed Mr Media.

The financial meltdown world-wide has headlined for too long now, let's hit the reality button and move on, for this would surely kick start the process.

War and peace may always be a the subject of media focus, unless our need for aggression is controlled, i feel another Hollywood film on the way.

Third world poverty although always there hits the headlines in cycles.

Front page news often decends to a second, third and forth page. When this is true it is often gone as soon as it came. The real threat however it the consistant menace from the page five snippet.

Oh and by the way C Diff has just claimed its 10th victim at the Maidstone Hospital or Asbestos has been found at my childs school.

Hospital acquired infections are a huge problem in the UK. Thousands have died in recent years. MRSA and C diff have and will continue to effect the lives of many.

Asbestos related diseases such as Mesothelioma and Asbestosis have and will continue to blight hundreds of thousands world wide, despite steps to irradecate the use of asbestos. The latent period of symptoms to develop from initial exposure can be upwards of 40 years.

The conspiracy theorists amongst will always have fuel for their opinions but in my humble opinion it is the issues that sit just below the headlines that are the real threat. Look at it another way, was it not HG Wells who created one of the first mass hysterias with the radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' and yet it was the humble cold that defeated the aggressors?

If you or a loved one have been or you think have been effected by the hospital acquired infections MRSA or C Diff. Or have concerns about Asbestos Exposure then see below.

For Further information about MRSA visit: www.mrsacompensation.co.uk

For Further information about C Diff visit: www.cdiff-compensation.co.uk

For Further information about Asbestosis visit: www.asbestosiscompensationclaims.co.uk

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