Staph infection

A staph infection is caused by bacteria and can be easily given to someone. Most people who are sick in the hospital and their immune system is weak are most likely to get a staph infection. Nurses who work in the hospital could give a staph infection and who don’t carefully wash their hands after dealing with a staph infected person. A common name for this infection is called the “superbug” reason for this naming is because it kills a lot of people very fast. Blacks and people living in a crowed housing project may be at risk of getting the virus because of nasty bacteria floating around. A way to stop the infection in local hospitals would to have employees and patients to closely wash their hands after using the bathroom. Another way would be to test all hospitals for the staph bug. Staph infection has been around for decades but now is starting to erupt. 1.7 million people are hospitalized each year for a staph infection and 100,000 of them will die because of the lack of proper treatment. As of 2005 no patients who were treated for a staph infection has died because of better technology.

My reaction to this article is that this virus in very serious and should be taking seriously. Many people who are infected with this virus should be given the proper treatment and precautions of this virus and should be told that they should carefully wash their hands so they won’t pass it on to another person I feel that the article is very important because more and more Americans are being infected with this virus each and every day and they don’t know the correct way. To cleanse themselves so they won’t infect other people. But the most important part of this article is that it is finally telling why so many people are being infected and one reason is that most doctors don’t properly wash their hands after they perform a task but when they are told that they need to wash their hands they say they don’t want to be told what to do. But now it is being said that hospitals are being tested for the staph infection and if it is tested positive they will be told the dos and don’ts of treating a staph infected person.