MRSA Notes

This may be of interest to some of you who have been through this - I know it brings back memories for Marshall and I.

“As she boarded the plane for Miami, Anna Nicole developed a painful abscess at the site of the injection,” said a source with knowledge of the case. “The needle wasn’t […]

More details now after a little research - apparently Star Magazine and the National Enquirer have managed to get ahold of the autopsy report - bet they spent a fortune on it - but thats another story. Apparently Anna Nicole overdosed on chloral hydrate, a sleeping medication, but she was also suffering from a […]

I have just heard that the reason for the death of Anna Nicole Smith (which is to be announced officially on Monday morning), is a Staphylococcus aureus infection in her bloodstream (septicemia), along with a drug overdose.
You may remember that her former stepson, Pierce Marshall, who Anna Nicole was in a bitter court battle with […]

This is a horrible story and is appalling in this day and age. St. Joseph’s General Hospital in Vegreville, Alberta Canada has been closed down to new admissions and to visitors for two major reasons. There has been a recent spread of MRSA through its patients, and in the process of investigating that […]

If you are in central Florida and are the victim of a nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infection (doesn’t have to necessarily be MRSA), someone is looking for a spokesperson. If you will email me at christina@b5media.com, or leave a comment if you are interested, I will get you in touch with the right person.
Awareness, […]

We have a new story posted on MRSA Resources, this is the story of Rhoda’s experience with MRSA in her daughter, who was battling addiction, Graves Disease and Fibromyalgia at the time she caught MRSA.

Hi. My name is Rhoda and I am the mother of three beautiful daughters and five granddaughters and one grandson. […]

A reader at MRSA Resources left this poem in the comments:
I’ve never tried so hard to speak
and found myself yet unheard
Look out or you’ll die!!
You’d think they’d stop at that word
Die. Dead. Decaesed. Kaput.
With man’s fear of mortality,
he should think something afoot.
Surely someone alive besides me
Feels fear at these words of fatality.
CAMRSA
pronounced like
See a pursa,
is […]

And it has been another great Theme Day at b5media’s Science & Health channel. This month we are all talking about emergency preparedness - something that is *oh so* important. You don’t realize how important til you get in that situation, but we are all in that situation at some point or another. […]

Another personal story from our forum - so many of these are just the same. If any of this rings a bell, and you haven’t been properly diagnosed, please find another doctor. And please feel free to join us in the MRSA Forum. Image from UC-SF.

It all started about 3 years ago, […]

The Washington Times begins its article about HA-MRSA awareness with a bang:

The family thought about suing the hospital, but Maureen Daly said it was not possible because infection was listed as a risk that the family accepted in authorizing Mrs. Daly’s surgery. It is a common predicament faced by those contemplating litigation.
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