MRSA Notes

This is a good basic video about the basics of MRSA and more importantly, the basics of prevention. Pay special attention to the examples of the types of wounds that you should always keep your eye out for on yourself and your children. Knowledge is your friend when dealing with MRSA, it can buy you [...]

This is taken from a post on the MRSA YahooGroup – reprinted with permission from the author, Bryan, age 30 in Southern, CA. Take his story and advice and apply it to your own situation: I had an MRSA infection on my leg just above my knee that was misdiagnosed as a spider bite at [...]

Here you will find a video from Harlingen, TX Channel 4, about “Mary” and her plastic surgery nightmare – a wound that woudn’t close and the ensuing bladder infection that finally exposed the problem – MRSA. If you have a wound that isn’t acting right, get it checked out. The doctor in “Mary’s” case just [...]

I think the most important thing is that I can’t remember the last time I saw a staph infection that wasn’t MRSA -Dr. Gal Mayer, medical director at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center Just like in the general populus, MRSA is growing rapidly amongst gay men in NYC. Gay City News has a very good [...]

Councilman Tony Trout has a most eye opening post on his blog about MRSA in their local jail. The council asked the Greenville County Jail, “How many MRSA cases do we have?” and in response received a Power Point presentation about MRSA, and a whole lotta hooey. The response? County Administrator Joe Kernell stated “This [...]

In a study released in December, but being widely discussed this week, researchers from the University of Arizona swabbed the offices and personal items of 59 women and 54 men in several large cities for various germs, including MRSA. The top 3 germiest places in the office for women were: Makeup cases Phones Purses And [...]

Researchers have been looking for specific risk factors for CA-MRSA, meaning that they are looking at lifestyle, locations and any activities that have been done by CA-MRSA patients that could be the basis for their infections. They have found none. “What this means”, says Dr. Miller, “is that the average Joe or Jane can get [...]

I am so sad to report that 12 yr old Carlos Don lost his battle with MRSA septicemia in the early hours of Sunday morning. My heart breaks for his family. Carlos’s family said two weeks ago, he was at Camp Cuyamaca with 200 other Ramona sixth-graders when he came home very sick. Officials from [...]

In a gesture of good will and marketing sense, PURE Bioscience has donated 200 gallons of its new silver-based high performance, low toxicity disinfectant, Staph Attack, to the City of San Diego’s First Responders. They have led the horse to water, let’s pray that they take a drink. Then invite their other horsey friends over [...]

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center (whoop!) have linked the PVL toxin in CA-MRSA to necrotizing pnemonia. This is frightening, but hopefully it is best to know what we are dealing with, rather than not knowing, which is so often the case with MRSA. I am going to let someone else more qualified [...]