MRSA Notes

I guess the whole world isn’t in to Project Runway like I am - but I have just read some spoilers for the episode coming up here in 15 minutes, and Ill be darned if one of the most lovable contenders doesn’t have MRSA. It’s amazing how my two greatest interests, beauty and MRSA, […]

I have been contacted by a reporter doing a story on MRSA in Texas athletes:

I’ve contacted several high school and college athletic trainers about MRSA and they told me it wasn’t a problem, they’d neither seen nor heard of any athletes being infected, and were just telling kids to wash their hands more often. This […]

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 […]

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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…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 […]

Perez Hilton is my secret addiction - my break in the busy days. Love him or hate him, you can love him today for bringing some attention to MRSA to his monstrously wide audience. He is reporting about the prevalence of MRSA in the Lynwood County Jail where his friend Paris Hilton […]

There is a wonderful article in LHJ this month on MRSA, featuring the story of CJ Jackson, son of my friend Francine Jackson. You can read the entire article at the RID web site - it is full of basic information that everyone needs to know about MRSA and CJ’s wonderful story that will […]

This is a hard story to refute - three young men all got tattoos together at Lil Smitty’s, a Blue Island, Illinois tattoo parlor, and all three broke out with MRSA staph infections all over their brand new art. Illinois is soon going to be implimenting a new law for tattooing shops that will […]

Jarvis Moss, the first round draft pick of the Denver Broncos, suffered a staph infection two years ago that brings back memories of our ordeal, and might for you too:

If I showed you film of what he was like the first spring — he was 215 pounds,” said Meyer, who became Florida’s coach two years […]

Stephanie Stricklen is a health writer for KGW-TV in Oregon, and she wrote a little blurb on her health blog about germs and MRSA in the local gyms, then was surprised at the reaction she got from her readers who let loose with their experiences with MRSA.
Yes, MRSA is all around us, all the […]