MRSA Notes

My dear friend and the moderator of our MRSA forum, Peg McQueary, has her incredible story featured tonight on Nightline (11:35pm ABC).  I can’t begin to tell you how much Peg has touched my heart in the almost 3 years now that I have known her.   My husband can testify that I have spent [...]

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 [...]

This story, from MercuryNews.com, is the story of Laura Debell, a Santa Clara County Jail inmate, who, during a 2 week stay in the jail in 2005, got a small wound on her leg that let to an internal MRSA infection that traveled throughout her body and set up shop in her spine. A [...]

These are just a few general MRSA informational links that have popped up across the web over the last week - basic MRSA knowledge - worth a look:
MRSA Infections Becoming Resistant (US - Los Angeles)
MRSA Cases on the Increase (UK)
Infection Adapts to Human Resistance (US - Indiana)
California, Education, Indiana, MRSA, MRSA in the U.S., [...]

One of my long time readers, and a phage therapy advocate, sent me the link to this wonderful video about the state of phage therapy, and how it works. Phage therapy was used before the widespread use of antibiotics, and is only practiced in a few clinics in the world, and none in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here are some links to some interesting MRSA related stories from over the weekend:
Jessica Snyder Sach wonders why MRSA is such big news in Canada and the UK, but it’s not getting the same media coverage here. Can you say “big pharma?”
My favorite natural doctor, Dr. Andrew Weil, addresses Staph infections and treatment with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]