MRSA Notes

Atlanta’s professional basketball and hockey teams, the Hawks and the Thrashers have taken a proactive stance towards protecting their players from Staph, MRSA and other bacterial infections with the use of the SportsAide antimicrobial system that we have heard about here several times in the past.

Staph infections are a very serious concern for all athletic [...]

This is an awesome article about how 13 year old Lynzee Suske narrowly escaped a very bad battle with MRSA due to the technology of telemedicine. It brings to light the importance of hospitals being at the top of their game in the tech department.

On Nov. 28, Lynzee’s doctors set up a teleconferencing [...]

There is a story out now in the December 11th issue of Newsweek that has some MRSA activists a little upset. Old Bugs, New Drugs is a general overview of MRSA, Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and a couple other bacteria currently scourging society.
The complaints are that the article doesn’t properly warn people of the [...]

This article, Pendulum, by Robert Klassen, addresses an aspect of infection control which baffles all of us who have been affected by infection. He offers up some reasoning behind what seems like a cover up by the government, hospitals, the CDC, attorneys who won’t take cases and basically everyone having anything to do with [...]

The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) has completed a survey of 1008 men and women regarding their concern for skin infections and flu.
They say that 74% were concerned about hygiene in academic settings, and 84% were concerned about hygiene in their homes. I would love to see the actual survey they conducted, but it is [...]

Did you know that your pets and other animals can carry MRSA? Well, they can. The most notable example is the story of Bella and Jill Moss, well documented at The Bella Moss Foundation (photo is of beautiful Bella). Also in recent news are two horses who have recently been diagnosed with [...]

MRSA has taken the NFL by surprise this last couple of years, with several players being benched because of it. This article at California’s Monterey Herald, is a brief overview of MRSA in the NFL and the problems that the Cleveland Browns, and more specifically, Brian Russell, have had with MRSA recently.
I have been [...]

IslandPacket.com has the story of several athletes on Hilton Head island in SC who have been fighting MRSA as a result of very normal scratches and wounds attained during football games and practices:

The scratch on David Hutton’s left shin was an inch long and innocuous — the kind of “injury” an offensive lineman might suffer [...]

Well, you know I am not a scientist - and when it comes to talking about PVL (Panton-Valentine leukocidin) my ignorance does indeed show. I was under the impression that this toxin was a result of CA-MRSA, a toxin released by the bacteria in the course of an infection, not a cause of an [...]

This is great news in the fight against MRSA! In a University of Chicago study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists believe they have created a vaccine that offers significant protection from most of the strains of MRSA. Here are some specifics about the research:

Olaf [...]