Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital

puddingebola writes From the article: "A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 160 others were exposed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through contaminated medical instruments, the hospital revealed. The drug-resistant superbug known as CRE was likely transmitted to the Los Angeles patients by contaminated medical scopes during endoscopic procedures that took place between October 2014 and January 2015, a university statement said. " UCLA says the infections occurred via contaminated endoscopes that were sterilized according to the manufacturer's specifications. (Note: beware autoplaying video ad; adjust your volume accordingly.)

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Thanks freetards

[Anonymous Coward]

Another fail for Linux and open sores.

Anyone wonder why this isn't hitting Wyoming?

[Karmashock]

California is opening its doors to pretty much anyone from central America at this point... and they tend to be very poor people with no vaccinations, often they've been traveling for awhile under rough conditions, according to the people at the detainee centers these people are riddled with parasites/diseases/wriggling lice just falling out of their hair... etc.

So... whatever you might think about the issue... maybe you're one of those "there's no such thing as an illegal person" people... but this is not safe. California specifically is going through serial outbreaks because this crap is just flowing across the border. At the very least, establish an Ellis Island type quarantine facility so that they can get hosed off and deloused.

And I'll note for fun that if Americans decided to just show up in Mexico expecting to be housed, fed, treated for medical conditions without payment, etc the Mexicans would at best put those americans on a bus, dump them at the border, and then send the US government a bill for the service. Suggesting that this is not okay is not racism etc... no country in its right mind would put up with this crap.

Literally the only reason we are doing this is because the democrats are running out of US citizens that actually want to vote for them. So they're importing voters and pretty much breaking every rule on the books to do it. I'm not saying that if you're a democrat that you're a scummy person. You're probably my neighbor and I'm not mad at you. But the people pushing this at a high level are scummy people. They're used to buying elections and since that isn't working as well as it used to they're importing voters. Its pretty disgraceful.

And also a health concern apparently.