Breaking: First case of MERS confirmed in the US. (Here in Indiana)

[chef larry]

I live under a rock, so this is the first I've heard of it. Very very confusing. I hope the similarity does not cause any confusion that has medical consequences.

Heard the person was in a gift shop looking for a corndog.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

For a while, when the MERS cases first started making the media rounds, I just thought it was a renaming of the MERSA thing.

Actually, it's MRSA... Medically Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Hey! It gets lonely in the desert!

 

[chef larry]

Hey! It gets lonely in the desert!

Yuck.

 

[Dead Duck]

**UPDATE** -Community Hospital in Munster - So basically SE Chicago - Thank God.

U.S. Reports First Case of MERS - NBC News

 

[printcraft]

Hey! It gets lonely in the desert!

Now you know where the term 'smoking a camel' came from.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I don't care

 

[1775usmarine]

MRE's hell we use to eat those all the time you wouldn't poop for 3 weeks but when you did it was a brick. We never got sick though.........Oh wait you meant something else.

 

[Dead Duck]

Now you know where the term 'smoking a camel' came from.

And then there's "Smoking Your Camel" after a Lovers Quarrel.

 

[printcraft]

And then there's "Smoking Your Camel" after a Lovers Quarrel.

Ah, the traditional Wednesday meal.

 

[bdybdall]

Actually, it's MRSA... Medically Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus.

Uhh, close but no banana. It's Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. It's a staph bacteria that has developed resistance to penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotics.

 

[Snapdragon]

**UPDATE** -Community Hospital in Munster - So basically SE Chicago - Thank God.

U.S. Reports First Case of MERS - NBC News

Wow.

 

[1911ly]

isn't is MRSA?

that's two letters different!

This is Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Way different then MRSA.

It's hopefully contained. And this guy is getting the help he needs. And it says over there!!

 

[chef larry]

The 10:00 P.M. news said the person was in a hospital in Munster, IN .

 

[1775usmarine]

The 10:00 P.M. news said the person was in a hospital in Munster, IN .

Oh good that's Jedi's territory........

 

[hoosierdoc]

The 10:00 P.M. news said the person was in a hospital in Munster, IN .

If we ever get Ebola or some awful bioterror agent, let's not put the people in the hospital. It contaminates the whole building. Treat those people in off-site facilities.

 

[PX4me]

-Community Hospital in Munster - So basically SE Chicago - Thank God.

My kid goes to school 1/4 mile from the hospital.

 

[Stickfight]

If we ever get Ebola or some awful bioterror agent, let's not put the people in the hospital. It contaminates the whole building. Treat those people in off-site facilities.

Hospitals deal with hemorrhagic viruses regularly. At any given time there are usually a couple of cases in progress somewhere in North America.

I just checked this and it looks like 5 cases right now, including one in VA involving multiple patients.

 

[96firephoenix]

I had the same thought, but its actually just MRSA. Methycillin Resistant Staph. Aur.

Everyone writes it MERSA though.


I have no idea what I just said.

 

[femurphy77]

Can we not use an acronym that is one letter different than something else? MERS, MERSA.

Don't worry, someone will be along complaining because it stereotypes people from the middle east. The PC apologists and accommodators will fall over themselves trying to come up with something subservient so as not to offend!