Hi everyone,

I wanted to give you an introduction of me. Since I am new here I love for
other's to see all about me and how I have overcome MRSA.

My name is Dawncarla DeLaPaz and located in Muskegon, Michigan. I have been
suffering from MRSA since 2002 and have had many close calls with major
infections.
My doctors almost gave up on me; I had break outs everywhere that turned into
staff infections throughout my body. I was on so many different kinds of meds
that obviously did not work at all. I know I am a carrier of MRSA for the rest
of my life, but I wanted to do my own research on how I could control the
breakouts.

With this being so new to Michigan doctors had no answers really. I lost my job
due to I was contagious and had to miss weeks of work, and just got fell into
depression for a few years.

I have my full story at  www.cybersolutionz.com/mrsa if you would like to know
more about me. I think it is great that there are groups like this out there for
those that need it.

If anyone needs a shoulder and an ear, I am always available.

I do have some good news though…..
I have not had any symptoms for over 1 month now which is awesome. There is a
new doctor at my doctor's office and he has told me this:

THERE IS A CURE for MRSA...  HE says what they do is, when you get sores you
need to go into the doctor's office, Hospital and have it drained, and tested.
What they test for is to see what the SUPER BUG is not resistant to, and treat
you with that. Now I have not had this done due to no breakouts in over a month,
but I am anxious to hear if anyone else has... and the results…

Be Blessed,
Dawncarla DeLaPaz

Dear All

Please find below a link to the results of our research blog into MRSA

http://www.thepatientsvoice.org/MRSA/

Feel free to add any comments you think will be of interest

You are welcome to use any of the infomration but we would ask that if you do so
you provide a link to the site

Best wishes

Belinda

I saw your post and felt compelled to add a post of my own, as follows:

  WE ARE NOT LEPERS!!! We are just people who have had the misfortune to have,
through no fault of our own, acquired this disease. We certainly do not wish it
upon any other individual, we just want to be treated with common courtesy and
respect. Allow the date to get to know YOU first, then he/she can decide if they
want 'the entire package deal'. When I first found I had CA-MRSA I had never
even heard of it, but later on I found that there are many, many people who had
it also...but like myself they had no prior knowledge of this super bug.
Soooo...go out and have some fun, don't stress over the date, etc, enjoy life
and what it offers and do educate the other person about MRSA once they get to
know you and you/he/she decide to take the relationship to a more intimate
level.

Then Go !  Lucky Lady ! I have written a couple of messages here explaining that
I have "suffered" with MRSA since 1993. Well the first thing to remember ( or
learn ) is that MRSA is a bacteria and NOT a virus.

MRSA is everywhere we all go and just about everywhere we all live. It is
surprisingly hard to catch and mostly it comes through Operations although a
footballer can catch it from a blade of grass cut on the field.

A virus has been described to me as a "slush" i.e. non living replicator. Hence
antibiotics do nothing.

I lived and "slept" with my wife for 10 years and she despite quite open wounds
on my legs never ever caught anything.

My own experience is that the less ignorant we all are the easier "illness" is
to live with. Believe me there is someone for everyone and the first thing is
that you love him for who he is.

Despite having this since 1993 and tried to understand all I can - I have yet to
find instances of other family members "catching it".

I would suggest that you stop worrying yourself and enjoy the date and
reremember a cold is bacteria often caught but MRSA not ! and otherwise I ll
have dinner and explain a bit more ! all the best Paul

What to do what to do ...

I'm no Ann Landers BUT this is what I would do.

To the best of my knowledge MRSA is not a reportable "disease" (it's from being
a disease in the true meaning of the word but I think you know what I'm trying
to get at here).  It's not like have AIDS or HIV where you are obligated by law
to tell your partner (again please don't think I'm implying you are going to be
"getting freaky" with this guy on the first date ... hmmm the more I type the
more I seem to be getting myself in trouble here ... lol ... oh my !!)

You are not under any legal obligation to tell him that you have MRSA; and
frankly since this is your first date I wouldn't mention it all tonight (after
all you don't want to scare the poor guy off by telling him you have something
that he likely has never heard of and then spend the rest of the evening telling
him what it's all about instead of getting to know each other and having a nice
evening out ... right?)

In any case go out and have fun ... enjoy yourself ... LIVE LIFE !!

Dee (((hugs)))


--- In Stop_MRSA_Now@yahoogroups.com, "mrsasucks" <mrsasucks@...> wrote:
>
> Wow, I should be excited but actually I'm petrified.  I've been
> divorced since 1990.  I've dated since then but not much in the past
> 2-3 years.  I really would like to get back to life but what do I do?
>  This is a guy that I have known for a while, he's knows I'm a nurse
> and that I was fired because I reported my hospital to OSHA.  He
> doesn't know about the MRSA.  I don't know what my current status is.
>  What do I do?
>
> Caryl
>

Wow, I should be excited but actually I'm petrified.  I've been
divorced since 1990.  I've dated since then but not much in the past
2-3 years.  I really would like to get back to life but what do I do?
  This is a guy that I have known for a while, he's knows I'm a nurse
and that I was fired because I reported my hospital to OSHA.  He
doesn't know about the MRSA.  I don't know what my current status is.
  What do I do?

Caryl

As a Nurseline nurse, I talk to folks across the country.  I get calls
from a lot of younger people who have gotten tattoos or body piercings
and within a few days they have symptoms that sound very much like
MRSA near the site.  Please encourage everybody you know who might be
considering Tattoos, Body Piercings or any Planned Surgical Procedure
(in other words, any planned event that would open your skin) to wash
with Hibiclens from head to toe for at least a week prior to decrease
the microbial cell count on their body prior to the event.  When I say
head to toe, I mean it literally.  Not every day, but at least once a
week, I wash with Hibiclens in my hair all the way down to my tippy,
tippy toes!!!

Caryl

So what organization is responsible for issuing Standards of Care for
Infectious Disease.  I am a surgical RN and for nursing, AORN, is
responsible for our Standards of Care.  Sure the CDC issues a lot of
info including "recommendations".  Who on the MD side and on the RN
side is the governing body responsible for issuing Standards? As we
have seen from postings of folks from around the country, they are
certainly not being practiced in any "standard" manner. Why are these
standards not being followed?

Caryl

Congratulations on your improvement!   Did you see the post about the 75%
Colloidal silver, 15%DMSO, and 10% glycerine a couple of weeks ago??  You will
find it very interesting, very.   Also, people with all kinds of issues are
getting results using low dose naltrexone.  Might check those out.    Best
wishes to you.   pj


--- On Wed, 2/18/09, Paul Weisman <paul06fr@...> wrote:

> From: Paul Weisman <paul06fr@...>
> Subject: [Stop_MRSA_Now] MRSA Progress
> To: Stop_MRSA_Now@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 3:49 AM
> I originally wrote in message 115 about improvement in my
> open wounds
> by eating a lot of salty crisps.. I have suffered MRSA
> since 1993 had
> 11 major operations and over 30 general anasthetics post
> opertry when
> the pain to change the dressings was unimaginable. Well as
> scandalous
> as this may seem due to a number of factors I spent 2 weeks
> drinking
> rather heavily ( only beer and maybe some red wine) I am
> not yet
> alcoholic just a heavy binger.. well once again I have
> witnessed
> incredible results with one side of my leg closing up
> completely for
> the first time since 2001 and the back of my leg slightly
> open but not
> weeping.
> Trying and honestly being objective I suspect at night I
> was so tired
> that I didnt scratch or touch my leg which may have helped
> however it
> also appeared in my face at times and that too is currently
> silent.
> My friends who have witnessed first the drinking were then
> shocked to
> see the much much improved condition of my leg also wonder
> if a
> fortnight enforced coma might not help. In otherwords I d
> ont think
> MRSA like beer but I ll keep you posted. My friends believe
> in the
> power of Prayer and to some extent Prayer is based on Hope
> and that is
> the key message never lose it- Paul
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

I originally wrote in message 115 about improvement in my open wounds
by eating a lot of salty crisps.. I have suffered MRSA since 1993 had
11 major operations and over 30 general anasthetics post opertry when
the pain to change the dressings was unimaginable. Well as scandalous
as this may seem due to a number of factors I spent 2 weeks drinking
rather heavily ( only beer and maybe some red wine) I am not yet
alcoholic just a heavy binger.. well once again I have witnessed
incredible results with one side of my leg closing up completely for
the first time since 2001 and the back of my leg slightly open but not
weeping.
Trying and honestly being objective I suspect at night I was so tired
that I didnt scratch or touch my leg which may have helped however it
also appeared in my face at times and that too is currently silent.
My friends who have witnessed first the drinking were then shocked to
see the much much improved condition of my leg also wonder if a
fortnight enforced coma might not help. In otherwords I d ont think
MRSA like beer but I ll keep you posted. My friends believe in the
power of Prayer and to some extent Prayer is based on Hope and that is
the key message never lose it- Paul

So sorry about your bad experiences with this!!   You may find the devices
and experiences in the files of a Yahoo group named
microelectricitygermkiller to be of great use to you and yours.  Best wishes, pj

Hello, All.  I am new to this group.  I do not have MRSA but know
it is a terrible thing to come down with!!  A group at eskimo.com by
the name of the silver list had a posting from a subscriber named
indi.  He had MRSA for 6 years and was kept alive by antibiotics
intravenously every few weeks.  When the docs wanted to amputate one
leg, he stopped going to them and in a couple of weeks, the infection
had spread to the other leg and other places on his body.  A friend
gave him a bottle of a silver prep called MesoSilver and straight CS
stopped the symptoms from getting out of control, but did not
eliminate the infection.  Then he began a protocol he saw on the
silver list.  It is as follows:  75% Colloidal silver, 10% DMSO, and
15% glycerine.  This preparation is applied topically on his legs,
feet, back, neck and arms and he also snorts it from a nasal spray
bottle.  He now makes his own CS using the HVAC cone method and got
the NOW glycerine and the unbranded 99% pure DMSO intended for
veterinary use and distributed by FWI of Tulsa, OK from Amazon.com.
He aso drinks 8 oz. of CS daily.
     He has given permission to repost this message where it might
help others suffering as he did.
     I have had this message for some time and apologize for not
posting this before now.  Don't know why I didn't think of it
sooner.  This poor person had given up and expected to die shortly
after he quit the docs altogether, but says that death would be
preferable to a life of misery and hospitalization.   Then his friend
came up with the CS.
      I sure hope this helps someone.  This person extended his thanks
to the group for giving him his life back.  I hope you folks have the
same experience.   Sincerely,  pj

I have just found out, after a year and five doctors that misdiagnosed it, that
i have CA-
MRSA.  My wife has also been diagnosed as having it.  Between us we have seen 7
doctors
before the last one listened to us and took a culture of boils we both had at
the time.  We had
diagnoses of spider bite, deodorant problems, skin irritations, and
uncleanliness.  I had the
first boil and my wife acquired it after.  Probably from draining the original
boils after the
first 2 doctors were very unconcerned about them.  We are scared and concerned
about this,
particularly since it went for a year and alot of worthless antibiotics.  We
have been put on a
six month treatment of Bactrim.  I was wondering if anyone else has been given
this course
of action.  We were told that this is the standard of treatment to start with
for CA-MRSA.
Thank God that both of our kids have not acquired it in the time of
misdiagnoses.  We feel
for all out there dealing with this growing problem and have been actively
letting anyone who
will listen know about CA-MRSA.

Hello.  pj again.  I forgot to say that indi  said  "From my body's
rsponse to this new treatment which i read about in an email from
Brooks Bradley to this list(the silver list) I now feel confident that
this infection will be cured altogether in a short time."  After 4 days
of using the preparation he no longer needed his cane to walk.  He no
longer needed to take frequent "breaks" to put his feet up.  All
inflammation is now gone, he says, and the purplish splotches which
have covered most of his affected areas for the past few years are
retutrning to a healthy color.  His energy levels are nearly as high
now as they were before he became infected.  sleeping well again and
For the first time in six years, I feel pretty much like myself
again!   his words pretty much.  Encouraging, huh???!!

Hello Samantha and welcome to the group.

I am saddened to read of all the events you have encountered during
your life.  Nobody said it would be easy however with having MRSA
enjoying life is much more difficult.

This group is small and not a lot of people post messages.  However
whenever you need to "talk" feel free to post a message hear ... I
will always respond.  Sometimes life seems a little more bearable when
you know someone who understands is willing to listen.

My prayers and thoughts are with you Samantha.

Dee
--- In Stop_MRSA_Now@yahoogroups.com, "sam1iam4u" <sam1iam4u@...> wrote:
>
> hi everyone, my nameis samantha i am40 and have two great daughters
> i had sugery in 1998 4 cyst and infection in the mastiod bone that
> needed to be scraped ididnt know until 2006 that i had mrsa i did
> know that previos yrs i became vilently ill vertgo vomiting
> inability to work lost 50pds 104pds at 59 accused of using cocane
> repoded cars eviction and even the worst partof all i gave my babies
> to their father grades and mental welbeing down word iwanded to die
> after andattempted i see andtalk to them thiskeeps me goingbut the
> docters say they cantdosurgery a3rd time i wont make it off the
> table antibiotic introvenesly didnt work.ilostmyparents at a young
> age and the thought my 12and 18yr old daughters dealing with thatis
> unbarable but i think my huband will be better off disabilaty not
> comeyet i am tring to wait 4 that ive been aburden to him
> seizers,speech,memory and i just dont enjoy much after things are
> taken care of on my end some neurosurg will take me on i want to go
> home and pray our father will have me mrsa has taken every one
> including my love of life away ilook forward to hearing your stories
> of overcoming this and hope you have never been treated like you
> have leprosy i have even been fired from ajob and it was never
> present onthe skin they also tried to take my girls sorry 4 spelling
> and other clerical errors
>

hi everyone, my nameis samantha i am40 and have two great daughters
i had sugery in 1998 4 cyst and infection in the mastiod bone that
needed to be scraped ididnt know until 2006 that i had mrsa i did
know that previos yrs i became vilently ill vertgo vomiting
inability to work lost 50pds 104pds at 59 accused of using cocane
repoded cars eviction and even the worst partof all i gave my babies
to their father grades and mental welbeing down word iwanded to die
after andattempted i see andtalk to them thiskeeps me goingbut the
docters say they cantdosurgery a3rd time i wont make it off the
table antibiotic introvenesly didnt work.ilostmyparents at a young
age and the thought my 12and 18yr old daughters dealing with thatis
unbarable but i think my huband will be better off disabilaty not
comeyet i am tring to wait 4 that ive been aburden to him
seizers,speech,memory and i just dont enjoy much after things are
taken care of on my end some neurosurg will take me on i want to go
home and pray our father will have me mrsa has taken every one
including my love of life away ilook forward to hearing your stories
of overcoming this and hope you have never been treated like you
have leprosy i have even been fired from ajob and it was never
present onthe skin they also tried to take my girls sorry 4 spelling
and other clerical errors

I have had MRSA in the bone of my left leg since July 1993. I had
annual operations hrough to 2001 to try and dig it out - without any
great results but the dd cure the gangerine. Anyways jus recently my
legs (as it is now in both legs and on my face) have both been showing
clear signs of improvement - not closed up completely but certainly
smaller and less active. The only thing I can think of is that recently
I have bee binging on crisps and a generally higher salt diet. I
already knew that saly applied to the openings could yield some results
but never thought of boosting salt intake. I d ont think this would be
a good ide in the longer term butif it will only close up the
infection  to at least under te skin it would be just great !

Hi all. I am new to this group, was also new to CA-MRSA until
recently. I 'acquired' it, I think, from working in a store, thought I
was over it the first time back in March of this year by treating with
oral antibiotics, but then it returned and I was hospitalized and had
to have surgery to drain the abcesses, then the IV antibiotics and
packing the abcesses on an outpatient basis. My home now smells like
Lysol and Germ-X, but I was wondering if anyone knew of anything,
other than washing hands, etc, that might help prevent this from
re-occurring again, as I have been told it probably will. Hope to hear
from someone with this information, THANKS!

Dee i hope you got on the show. I know you posted the mrsa clay
article before. Here is the newest one + an email for all in you group
to read----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Shelley Haydel <Shelley.Haydel@...>
To: Mike Douglas <mikernsemail@...>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:24:23 AM
Subject: Re: Golden clay

Hope that you are feeling better.

Since the first batch of clay has characteristics that we are
interested in studying, we are going to cover the costs of testing the
subsequent batch.  I'm just not sure when we will get around to
testing it – hopefully within a few weeks.

Healing clays" hold promise in fight against MRSA superbug infections
and disease

NEW ORLEANS — Mud may be coming to a medicine cabinet or pharmacy near
you. Scientists from Arizona State University report that minerals
from clay promise could provide inexpensive, highly-effective
antimicrobials to fight methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) infections that are moving out of health care settings and into
the community. These "superbugs" are increasingly resistant to
multiple antibiotics and cause thousands of deaths each year.
Clay

Minerals from clay could provide a source of powerful antimicrobials
for fighting deadly MRSA infections and other diseases.
Photo courtesy of Arizona State University, John C. Phillips

Unlike conventional antibiotics routinely administered by injection or
pills, the so-called "healing clays" could be applied as rub-on creams
or ointments to keep MRSA infections from spreading, according to a
research duo from ASU's Biodesign Institute and College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences. The clays also show promise against a wide range of
other harmful bacteria, including those that cause skin infections and
food poisoning, they add. Their study, one of the first to explore the
antimicrobial activity of natural clays in detail, was presented at
the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the
world's largest scientific society.

Clays have been used for thousands of years as a remedy for infected
wounds, indigestion, and other health problems, either by applying
clay to the skin or eating it. Cleopatra's famed beauty has been
credited to her use of clay facials. Today, clays are still commonly
used at health spas in the form of facials and mud baths. However,
armed with new investigative tools, researchers Shelley Haydel and
Lynda Williams are putting the clays to the test, scientifically.

"Clays are little chemical drug-stores in a packet," says study
co-leader Williams, a geochemist in the School of Earth and Space
Exploration. "They contain literally hundreds of

In their latest study, funded by the National Institutes of Health,
Williams, Haydel and their colleagues collected more than 20 different
clay samples from around the world to investigate their antibacterial
activities. Study co-leader Haydel, a microbiologist in ASU's School
of Life Sciences and a researcher in ASU's Biodesign Institute, tested
each of the clays against bacteria known to cause human diseases.
These bacteria include MRSA, Mycobacterium ulcerans (a microbe related
to the tuberculosis bacterium that causes a flesh-eating disease known
as Buruli ulcer), as well as E. coli and Salmonella (which cause food
poisoning).

The researchers identified at least two clays from the United States
that kill or significantly reduce the growth of these bacteria, in
addition to the one French green clay that launched their research in
2005. The antibacterial effect of the French clay was documented this
year in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, with co-author
Christine Remenih.

Identifying what specific compounds make these clays effective
antibacterial agents presents a challenge, researchers say, but they
credit their combined perspectives, coming as they do from two very
different scientific disciplines, for their successes. Haydel and
Williams note too that tools like electron and ion microscopy might
also reveal how these antibacterial clays may interact with the cell
membranes or cellular physiology of the bacteria to kill.

Williams and Haydel continue to test new clay samples from around the
world to determine their germ-fighting potential. They hope that the
more promising clays will be developed into a skin ointment or pill to
fight a variety of bacterial infections or possibly as an agricultural
wash to prevent food poisoning. Several companies have expressed
interest in forming partnerships to develop the clays as antimicrobial
agents, the scientists say.

But ordinary mud can contain dangerous bacteria as well as toxic
minerals like arsenic and mercury, the researchers point out. Until
healing clays are developed that are scientifically proven, which
could take several years, they say that hand washing and other proper
hygiene techniques may be the best bet for keeping MRSA and other
harmful bacteria at bay.

Sources:
Lynda Williams
Associate Research Professor
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
lynda.williams@...(480)965-0829 | lynda.williams@...

Shelley Haydel
Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences and Biodesign Institute's Center for
Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
(480)727-7234 | Shelley.Haydel@...

I have this material I you know someone that wants and or needs it!

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Mud Harnessed to Fight Infections

By Alan Mozes
HealthDay ReporterSun Apr 6, 7:01 PM ET

SUNDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- It looks like dirt might one day be better than soap at keeping harmful bacteria at bay.

 

Arizona scientists report they have found a host of anti-microbial minerals in mud that could be the makings of a new generation of unconventional but effective creams to combat the nastiest germs. Increasingly dangerous antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" -- such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) -- are the primary targets of these new medicinal clay cocktails, the researchers said.

 

"For hundreds of thousands of years, clays have been used for wound-healing and even gastrointestinal problems," noted study co-author Shelley E. Haydel, an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at the Arizona State University Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology in Tempe. "And there are a lot of people out there who already use mud therapeutically, without really knowing how it's working."

 

"And now we're seeing effectiveness in the lab, from a microbiological standpoint," she added. "So now, the question is: How can this translate into something practical?"

 

Haydel and her team were expected to present their mud therapy research April 6 at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, in New Orleans.

 

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Haydel and her colleagues collected 20 different clay samples from all over the world. After categorizing each clay's composition, they then tested for antimicrobial properties against a wide range of different bacteria, including: antibiotic-resistant strains of MRSA; the flesh-eating Mycobacterium ulcerans; and E. coli and salmonella.

 

In the lab, Haydel and her colleagues identified three clays that appeared to kill or substantially reduce growth among all the tested bacteria, including MRSA.

 

"The big deal with MRSA is that it starts out as a topical infection, but once it gets into the bloodstream, you get into a huge problem," Haydel observed. "So, while we're certainly not proposing to inject this directly into the bloodstream, we're hoping to stop that skin-to-blood transition from happening."

 

With the aid of electron and ion microscopes, the team is now tracking the way in which the most promising clays interact with bacterial membranes on the cellular level to pin down the source of their germ-fighting power.

 

Though optimistic about the long-range prospects for developing mud-based medicines --even perhaps in pill form -- the researchers stressed that good hygiene is still the best bulwark against bacteria. And they advised consumers against digging for medical gold in their own backyards.

 

"You can move over just 100 yards from a geological site, and the mineralogical makeup of the new site can be completely different," Haydel noted. "We see that all the time, with different batches of clay. Or we even sometimes see -- as with two clays from France that we looked at -- two clays where both are the same on the mineralogical and chemical level, but one kills bacteria, and the other doesn't. So, we have a lot to figure out."

 

Then there's the fact that dirt can also harbor bad bacteria and toxic minerals such as mercury and arsenic, the researchers said. So, hand washing isn't about to go out of style just yet.

 

Meanwhile, George A. O'Toole, an associate professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, described the research as "intriguing."

 

"The effort to identify a new class of antibiotics is important, because most of the varieties we now use have been around for the last 40 years," he noted. "However, typically when people look for new naturally derived antibiotics, they focus on living biological material, like plants. So, this is an interesting idea, in the sense that here, they're looking instead at an inorganic source like mud."

 

"But I would say that, in the short term, the most likely application will most be for the topical treatment of skin infections rather than as an ingestible," he added. "Because to use it as a pill, you have to first identify the helpful compounds and then synthesize them in a way that could be useful, which is a long and involved process. Developing topical products is probably much easier."

 

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I was wondering when someone "big" in the States was going to do a show dedicated to MRSA education.  Well Dr. Phil did just that on April 1st - just this past Tuesday.  I unfortunately did not view the show myself however I was told by those that did it was well done.  As I'm typing out this message to you I am also on Dr. Phil's website.  I was hoping to find some "free" video footage but to no avail (however you can acquire a DVD of the show for $29.95)

Here's the link to the show http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/1048

On that page you'll be able to click on links to read the following:

The Superbug Scare

My name is Michael Douglas and I am a practicing RN working on a MRSA
unit. MY Email is mikernsemail@... I have seen entire families
torn apart by MRSA- until 5 weeks ago I worked in a select hospital- a
unit that specializes in MRSA treatment with wound vacs and drugs that
cost $1200.00 a dose. I know mrsa and its effects. We have a natural
mineral that kills MRSA on contact externally or internally. I am not
advertising if you know someone that has mrsa and is not getting
better we will supply this mineral at no cost no strings

THATS REALLY INTERSING ABOUT  MRSA.
  I HAVE TAKEN  SOME THOSE MEDS GIVEN TO ME  BUT TG I HAVEN;T HADE ANY
AFFECTS FROM IT

THANKS FOR ALL THE GOOD TIPS

                              DIANA

As of today's date when I do a google search I get the following results:

Search word: "MRSA"
Result:  4,290,000 links

Search word:  "Antibiotic Resistance"
Result:  1,210,000 links

Search word:  "CA MRSA"
Result:  234,000 links

I'm curious to what the result numbers will be when I do a search a year from now.

Dee
Moderator
Stop_MRSA_Now

I came across a site that has comments from people that have been diagnosed with MRSA.
Presently there are some 330 comments! 

You can check them out @ http://www.mrsaresources.com/mrsa-survival-in-adaptation/

Dee
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