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It's not just hospitals that are a breeding ground for these antibiotic resistant bacteria. Jails, prisons, military barracks and homeless shelters also make fantastic breeding grounds for MRSA, due to the close proximity in which people are forced to live and it can be worse because these places don't have the benefit of hospital cleaning techniques, which at least lessen your overall chance of catching the bug in the first place.

The Cuyahoga County Jail near where I live is notorious for its poor conditions and high incidence of MRSA cases, they have an entire floor of the jail dedicated to people who either come in with a staph infection or get one while they're incarcerated. Of course, jails aren't required to report these outbreaks and many simply don't. The thing about jails is that most of the people who end up there stay for a week or a couple of months and then are released, bringing the drug resistant bacteria with them.

Cuyahoga County Jail urged by health department to take steps to reduce spread of drug-resistant staph infections | cleveland.com

<blockquote data-quote="Muadib" data-source="post: 151743" data-attributes="member: 5463">It&#039;s not just hospitals that are a breeding ground for these antibiotic resistant bacteria.&nbsp; Jails, prisons, military barracks and homeless shelters also make fantastic breeding grounds for MRSA, due to the close proximity in which people are forced to live and it can be worse because these places don&#039;t have the benefit of hospital cleaning techniques, which at least lessen your overall chance of catching the bug in the first place. &nbsp;The Cuyahoga County Jail near where I live is notorious for its poor conditions and high incidence of MRSA cases, they have an entire floor of the jail dedicated to people who either come in with a staph infection or get one while they&#039;re incarcerated.&nbsp; Of course, jails aren&#039;t required to report these outbreaks and many simply don&#039;t.&nbsp; The thing about jails is that most of the people who end up there stay for a week or a couple of months and then are released, bringing the drug resistant bacteria with them. &nbsp;<a href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/09/cuyahoga_county_jail_urged_by.html" target="_blank">&nbsp; &nbsp; Cuyahoga County Jail urged by health department to take steps to reduce spread of drug-resistant staph infections |&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; cleveland.com</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Muadib, post: 151743, member: 5463"] It's not just hospitals that are a breeding ground for these antibiotic resistant bacteria. Jails, prisons, military barracks and homeless shelters also make fantastic breeding grounds for MRSA, due to the close proximity in which people are forced to live and it can be worse because these places don't have the benefit of hospital cleaning techniques, which at least lessen your overall chance of catching the bug in the first place. The Cuyahoga County Jail near where I live is notorious for its poor conditions and high incidence of MRSA cases, they have an entire floor of the jail dedicated to people who either come in with a staph infection or get one while they're incarcerated. Of course, jails aren't required to report these outbreaks and many simply don't. The thing about jails is that most of the people who end up there stay for a week or a couple of months and then are released, bringing the drug resistant bacteria with them. [url="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/09/cuyahoga_county_jail_urged_by.html"] Cuyahoga County Jail urged by health department to take steps to reduce spread of drug-resistant staph infections | cleveland.com[/url] [/QUOTE]

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