flesh eating bug USA 300
 

Coughing and sneezing on crowded trains and buses can spread deadly flesh-eating superbugs, commuters are being warned.

the infamous hospital MRSA, can affect otherwise healthy people and are spreading across Britain.

They can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact and hugging as well as sneezing and coughing.

One strain, called USA300, can lead to blood poisoning or a form of pneumonia that eats away at lung tissue.

The bacteria are usually resistant to several types of antibiotics and can cause large boils on the skin.




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Re: flesh eating bug USA 300
 

Can you leave these sorts of insights till at the earliest mid-morning, please--I ended up looking very suspsiciously at my cheese croissants.

Re: flesh eating bug USA 300
 

i am so sorry dearest Bahtatboy ...take it easy .. its bad news but it is reall:D

Re: flesh eating bug USA 300
 

Hopefully it can be killed with alcohol...

N.

Re: flesh eating bug USA 300
 

really ? or just wishes :D

Re: flesh eating bug USA 300
 

Not really, I am just looking for even more reasons to drink ;)

N.

Re: flesh eating bug USA 300
 

Might be truer than you think. In NHS hospitals, the handwash stuff you have to use before going onto a ward to avoid MRSA is alcohol based, and there have been several reports of inmates, er, patients, drinking the stuff...