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 […]

From Rome News - Tribune (Georgia):

“We’re seeing an emergence or reappearance in people that are not considered at risk,” Abercrombie said. “The problem is its antibiotic resistance and that many people — mostly adults — are having such severe skin infections that they […]

Stubborn staph infection a threat to high school locker rooms
On some high school football teams, staph has also shown up for practice this year in Georgia. The germ, including the stubborn Staphylococcus aureus strain _ which is resistant to some common antibiotics _ has hit schools in Fulton, DeKalb and Fayette counties, The Atlanta […]

I am happy to see university systems in the U.S. being pro-active in the MRSA awareness area. Our schools here in my town (College Station, TX) are doing the very same thing. If you are in a university, you might visit the health services department just to give them a heads up to […]