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October 28, 2016
OOPS: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Can Hitch a Ride on Hospital Scrubs.
To track the spread of these bacteria, the researchers looked at 167 hospitalized patients in their study. These patients received care from 40 nurses over the course of three separate 12-hour shifts in the intensive care unit. The nurses used a new set of scrubs for each shift, according to the study.
Twice a day, the researchers sampled the nurses’ scrubs, the patients’ rooms and the patients themselves for bacteria. In total, they took more than 2,100 samples from the nurses’ scrubs (including the sleeves, the pockets and the midriffs of the scrubs), 455 samples from the patients and nearly 3,000 samples from the patients’ rooms (including the supply cart, the bed and the bed rails). Then, they tested these samples for bacteria. By identifying the specific strains of the bacteria, the researchers were able to determine when there had been a transmission of bacteria, from one location to another, within the rooms.
The researchers found 22 instances of bacterial transmission: six of the instances of transmission were from patient to nurse, six were from room to nurse and 10 percent were from patient to room.
Six types of bacteria were transmitted, including MRSA, Klebsiella pneumoniae, bacteria from a group called the Acinetobacter baumanii complex and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), a bacterium that is similar to MRSA but is treatable with the antibiotic methicillin.
The researchers noted that the pockets and sleeves of the nurses’ scrubs were the parts of the clothing that were the most likely to be contaminated, and the bed rails were the most likely places in the room to be contaminated.
Cleanliness requires constant vigilance.
ROBERT CREAMER, DEMOCRAT THUG: StepGreen linked to this PJMedia report earlier today, but it rates a bump. Heck, Creamer’s a special kind of thug; he’s a Democrat thug who practices political terror.
JOHN HINDERAKER: Did Huma Commit Perjury? “Today’s bombshell news, of course, is that the FBI has found a substantial number of emails from Hillary Clinton to Huma Abedin on the computer (desktop, I assume) that Huma shared with her husband, Anthony Weiner. The FBI was examining the computer’s hard drive to investigate whether Weiner had conducted a crime by sexting with an underage girl. Imagine the astonishment of a tech guy at the FBI who found, not only Weiner’s illicit texts, but a trove of emails from Hillary Clinton.”
CONGRESS: ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH ‘PLEADS FIFTH’ ON SECRET IRAN ‘RANSOM’ PAYMENTS.
Lynch replaced Eric Holder, who was held in contempt of Congress over Obama’s Fast & Furious scandal. If the Obama administration wasn’t ending in January, Lynch might well have risked being next.
HILLARY MILHOUS CLINTON’S OCTOBER SURPRISE: “Of course it was Anthony Weiner, the Fredo Corleone of the Democratic Party.”
Hey, at least Fredo helped Moe Greene build Vegas. That’s more of an accomplishment than anything Weiner has ever done in his political career.
WATERGATE REPORTER CARL BERNSTEIN: FBI Would Not Reopen Case Unless New Evidence Was “A Real Bombshell.” “We don’t know what this means yet except that it’s a real bombshell. And it is unthinkable that the Director of the FBI would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter forth to the Congress of the United States saying there is more information out there about classified e-mails and call it to the attention of congress unless it was something requiring serious investigation. So that’s where we are… Is it a certainty that we won’t learn before the election? I’m not sure it’s a certainty we won’t learn before the election.”
Plus: “But this is her achilles heel and we have to remember that it also comes on the — back to the word heel — of the revelations about the Clinton Foundation.”
THE IDYLLIC LIVES OF NOBLE SAVAGES BEFORE COLUMBUS ARRIVED: Ancient burials suggest a history of blood feuds, brutality and revenge.
BECAUSE THEY’RE ALL ABOUT “FULL DISCLOSURE” AT TEAM HILLARY: Podesta Calls on FBI Director to ‘Immediately Provide Full Details’ of New Email Probe.
CROOKS TEND TO CLAM UP: Clinton silent on FBI news at rally.
Related: New Clinton emails discovered in Weiner investigation: report.
UPDATE: It’s a good day to be Matt Drudge.
UBER IS READY FOR A FLYING TAXI FUTURE. So am I, so can we make this happen?
AND THAT I DO NOT FORGIVE: Death Of Former Putin Aide In D.C. Now Ruled To Be An Accident.
MY FACEBOOK FEED, AS WELL AS PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS, SUPPORT THIS: Women Are Boozing It Up As Much As Men.
GIVE ‘EM A ‘TASTE OF BLOOD’: Federal Report Exposed Robert Creamer’s Thuggery LONG BEFORE Obama Joined With Him in 1980s.
BUT DON’T WORRY, SHE’D NEVER DREAM OF DOING THIS IN AMERICA, RIGHT? 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election.
NATE SILVER: “Clearer signs now of a tightening race.”
CHANGE: FBI reopens investigation into Clinton email use.
UPDATE (From Ed): “If Dems have anything left on Trump, expect it to drop soon now to distract from the FBI news,” Allahpundit tweets.
WIKILEAKS: HILLARY ADVISER NEERA TANDEN CALLS ISRAEL GOVT. “RUTHLESS WINGNUTS.”
Earlier: Senior Obama officials: Israeli PM Netanyahu is ‘chickenshit’ and a ‘coward,’ according to administration stenographer Jeffrey Goldberg.
Both stories dovetail depressingly well with this warning from the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick: “Open season on Israel at the Security Council will commence November 9. The Palestinians are planning appropriately.”
OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It’s the penultimate edition of Wargaming the Electoral College, and the Land of 10,000 Hanging Chads.
I HOPE IT’S NOT AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS THE PROBE THOSE SPACE ALIENS USE: Autonomous Cars Could Determine Your Driving Style by Gently Probing You. Problem: “People might not always react positively to being probed.”
WILL THE FBI REOPEN ITS INVESTIGATION OF HILLARY?: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) seems to think so. Chaffetz says the FBI Director (that would be Jim Comey) has told him the Bureau “…has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” My guess is Comey is covering his derriere. Comey had better get moving right now. He’s got a lot to investigate. Hillary’s crimes entwine.
OBAMA BLAMES MEDIA FOR OBAMACARE FAILURES: While I don’t always agree with Mr. Obama, but with this latest example of his unceasing complaints about being let down by others, he may be onto something:
WELL, BUMMER: Cranberries Not Actually A Fix For UTIs. “This purported remedy is centuries old and there is a considerable amount of research investigating it. While some studies suggest that cranberry may reduce repeated infections in younger women, it is certainly not a treatment for an active case. The gold standard for treatment is antibiotics.”
IT’S ALWAYS BLACKLISTS WITH THESE PEOPLE: WaPo: Liberals prep blacklists of appointees should Clinton win.