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Entries from October 2007

10 Steps to Prevent MRSA in Schools

October 31st, 2007 · 8 Comments

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 [...]

Tags: Awareness · MRSA · MRSA in Children · MRSA in Schools/Athletics

A CA-MRSA Story

October 19th, 2007 · 20 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 and [...]

Tags: CA-MRSA · MRSA · MRSA in the U.S.

The Spark That Unleashed the MRSA Fire

October 18th, 2007 · 12 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.

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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 · 25 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 [...]

Tags: Awareness · CA-MRSA · HA-MRSA · MRSA · MRSA in the U.S. · PR & Media · Texas

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