Boston.com is reporting that four Connecticut prisons have reported MRSA outbreaks in recent days: York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Bergin in Storrs and Osborn in Somers. They have notified the Department of Public Health, and we all hope they are working to keep this under control. Interestingly enough, the article reports that some inmates are [...]
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Four Prisons in Connecticut Reporting MRSA
March 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Awareness · Connecticut · MRSA · MRSA in Prisons · MRSA in the U.S.
Surviving cancer and Staph infection
June 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments
This scares the hell out of me, even without the involvement of cancer and makes me once again so grateful that we were so lucky. From Acorn-online:
Since first being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, Darien resident Dot Driscoll has undergone a mastectomy, endured chemotherapy, suffered from a staphylococcus infection in her spine that [...]
Tags: Awareness · Connecticut · MRSA
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