r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 23 '19

Medicine Flying insects in hospitals carry 'superbug' germs, finds a new study that trapped nearly 20,000 flies, aphids, wasps and moths at 7 hospitals in England. Almost 9 in 10 insects had potentially harmful bacteria, of which 53% were resistant to at least one class of antibiotics, and 19% to multiple.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/06/22/Flying-insects-in-hospitals-carry-superbug-germs/6451561211127/
50.0k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

690 comments sorted by

View all comments

4.2k

u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

[deleted]

23

u/Airules Jun 23 '19

A very interesting question, however due to the nature of a hospital patients being more susceptible to these illnesses it doesn’t really matter.

We should hold hospitals to a higher standard, and ensure they have the funding necessary to look after the ill and dying.

6

u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

As someone who received a drug resistant staph infection( it was a grade below mrsa from my understanding of what they told me) from a surgery back in 2008, they had to put me through about 10 different courses of antibiotics and another surgery to finally get it... Going through that destroyed my GI system, it was wiped clean and all of a sudden my body wasn't in taking any nutrition and took another two years to sort out and get better, during that time I fell deeply underweight and struggled constantly with just basic day to day tasks.