This is scary and this is why I dont take antibiotics. Its scary that your body builds an immunity to the antibiotics that you take and that when it does something as simple as the flu could kill you. Discus
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdFlu/Story?id=4727218&page=1
Docs Fear Deadly Combo of Flu, MRSA
Influenza Opens Door for Superbug Infections, Health Experts Say
ABC News Medical Unit
One is a viral illness responsible for an estimated 35,000 deaths every year. The other is a potentially deadly superbug, a horrifying legacy of antibiotic overuse that is now resistant to almost every treatment today's doctors can throw at it.
Even on their own, infection with either influenza or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can lead to a grave situation. But now, health officials are keeping an eye out for an even more harrowing threat -- simultaneous infection with both diseases. And they say that, in children at least, these cases of co-incident infection appear to be on the rise.
So far, what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has learned about the potential link between flu and MRSA in young patients is disturbing.
According to an official health advisory issued Jan. 30, between Oct. 1, 2006, and Sept. 30, 2007, the agency received a total of 73 reports of child deaths due to influenza. In 22 of these cases, the children were also infected with some form of the staph bug, mostly MRSA
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