Superbugs rampant in homes without plumbing - Winnipeg Free Press.
"Most of the adults I see with MRSA have diabetes. Lots of kids have MRSA, but it is being passed back and forth between adults and kids, and with diabetes rampant in the north, the MRSA flourishes." Sometimes MRSA can go deeper into the body, invading the heart, lungs, blood or bone. In 2007, a four-year-old Nunavut boy died from MRSA after being flown to Churchill. The superbug seems to be taking off in First Nations in the region which includes Island Lake, the number of positive tests almost doubling in the last two years. Health Canada has not investigated whether the incidence is higher in communities that lack running water, but a 2008 Alaska study found MRSA rates were three times higher in villages where less than 80 per cent of homes had running water.
