Collins contracted MRSA after haemorrhages

Its such bad luck - none of these things would ever happen to Sting would they?

this seems to be happening with alarming regularity - sort it out Bliar!

get well soon, mr collins.

me on seeing this:

"Please be Phil, Please be Phil...ah shite!"

damn Tory cleaning...

woah. thats really surprising. such animosity towards Phil Collins. you should be ashamed of yourselves.









I thought exactly the same thing.

for fuck's sake it's not a virus

He's responsible for the added layers of beauroacracy in the NHS which leads to shortcuts and simple things like 'washing beds' and doctors 'not trailing their disease ridden ties from one intensive care bed to the next' which are, ultimately, to blame for this.

The future is BUPA.

I've never met a nurse like you before...

Firstly MRSA is a BACTERIA not a virus as kicka11 said.

And the evolution of MRSA, an antibiotic resistant strain of a bacteria about a third of us carry in the back of our throats, mostly harmlessly, has taken many years. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics through their overuse, partly to all the people who insist on antibiotics for every sore throat/cold etc, and also now largely thought to be due to the use of massive doses of antibiotics routinely given to intensively farmed animals to allow them to be kept in more cramped, dirtier conditions without them becoming sick.

MRSA began spreading under the Tories. The underfunded NHS under the tories was also forced to contract out its hospital cleaning to private companies to save a bit of cash so Thatcher et al could bribe people with tax cuts to vote for them again. Because hospitals were forced to accept the lowest bid, rather than the best one, the companies did, and still do, pay their staff a pittance and do as little actual cleaning as they can get away with to maximise their profits, would be very small if they cleaned everything properly.

So just as cleaners in banks are made to work night shifts for minimum wage while the chief execs walk away with 10 or 11 million a year, cleaners in hospitals are poorly paid and expected to clean a lot of areas in minimum time, things get missed, there are plenty of places for bacteria to breed, etc.

So you may want to think about thanking the lovely Conservative party for starting it all. Not Blair, despite his multitude of other faults.

And stop buying factory farmed meat while you're at it, it's cruel and wrong.

If I can lower the tone for a moment, a friend of mine gave another friend a cuddly toy flesh eating bacteria recently, just so he could say he'd given him necrotising fasciitis for his birthday. It was small and brown with a pretend knife and fork. Ain't scientists fun?