These are courtesy of my dear friends at RID: 1. Encourage students to clean their hands frequently 2. Parents, tuck a small container of hand sanitizer in your child’s book bag, if your child is mature enough to use it properly. 3. Educators, install dispensers of hand-sanitizer inside each classroom. Students should not [...]
Entries from October 2007
10 Steps to Prevent MRSA in Schools
October 31st, 2007 · 11 Comments
Tags: Awareness · MRSA · MRSA in Children · MRSA in Schools/Athletics
A CA-MRSA Story
October 19th, 2007 · 24 Comments
I get email from different people nearly every day with questions, comments and stories of their individual MRSA experiences, and have since beginning MRSA Resources nearly 3 years ago. This is a story I received a couple of weeks ago: Christina, I’m a 37 year old male, I have a wife and two boys, 15 [...]
Tags: CA-MRSA · MRSA · MRSA in the U.S.
The Spark That Unleashed the MRSA Fire
October 18th, 2007 · 13 Comments
Sadly, the catalyst for letting this MRSA problem out of the closet was the death of a Staunton River High School (VA) student, Ashton Bonds. My heart goes out to Ashton’s family. Share This
Tags: Awareness · CA-MRSA · MRSA · MRSA in Children · MRSA in Schools/Athletics · MRSA in the U.S. · PR & Media · Virginia
MRSA Finally Breaks Through The Thick Skulls…
October 17th, 2007 · 27 Comments
…Of those people trying to keep this problem (maybe I can safely say epidemic now??) swept under the rug. It was only a matter of time. If the flurry of traffic and comments here at MRSA Notes and over at MRSA Resources as well is any indication, along with the slurry of emails I have [...]
Tags: Awareness · CA-MRSA · HA-MRSA · MRSA · MRSA in the U.S. · PR & Media · Texas