MRSA Notes

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 infection [...]

The UK’s Daily Mail has a helpful list of things you can do to prevent acquiring MRSA if you are going to the hospital. You don’t have to be a patient to get MRSA at the hospital – just keep that in mind. Shower frequently Do not be afraid to ask the staff and visitors [...]

Solvay, an international chemical and pharmaceutical group located in Brussels, has developed a biocidal product, Perestane, that is an effective disinfectant against MRSA and C. difficile. Perestane®, which Solvay is marketing presently in the European Union, is a disinfectant based on peracid chemistry with a range of potential applications in the public and domestic health [...]

Dr. Betsy McCaughey, a friend of MRSA Resources and founder of The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), had an article published in the New York Times last week taking hospitals and the CDC to task and wondering why they haven’t made the simple changes which will drastically reduce these life threatening antibiotic resistant infections [...]

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 Schneewind, M.D., [...]

Did you notice I was absent for a few days? I had a major computer malfunction – well really a major home malfunction: a lightening bolt hit way-too-close-for-comfort, and killed my computer (right through the surge supressor) and our phone lines. At least it didn’t kill us! Anyway, the point of my sob story is [...]

A reporter is looking for HA-MRSA (hospital acquired MRSA) patients in the state of Missouri. If you happen to be interested in tellng your story and you fit the criteria, please email me at christina@b5media.com, and I will get you in touch with the right people. Remember, getting your story out there is a great [...]

When reading this editorial at the Charleston Daily Mail, regarding testing patients for MRSA as they enter the hospital, I really just wonder why the hospitals would do that before they would consider cleaning themselves up. There isn’t much point in knowing if a patient has it when he comes in to the hospital, if [...]

Here is a shocking report that says that MRSA is more likely to be transmitted to a patient when the rooms previous patient had MRSA. `I would take that information and be concerned that we weren’t doing a good enough job cleaning between our patients,” Lance Peterson, an infection control specialist for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare [...]

British actress, Leslie Ash, had a much publicized battle with MRSA two years ago, and This Is London has a bit of an update on her condition, along with this photograph of Leslie before her infection (bottom) and at present: An onlooker said, “She looked as though she was having difficulty walking. She wasn’t using [...]